Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia
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Localizing The Body Localizing The Body
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“Preserving the Past, We Look to the Future” “Preserving the Past, We Look to the Future”
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Harnessing Adaptation Harnessing Adaptation
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“Our Illnesses are the One Thing That’s Different” “Our Illnesses are the One Thing That’s Different”
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“We Don’t Know What Hurts” “We Don’t Know What Hurts”
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Stocking up on Health Stocking up on Health
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Chronic Disadaptations Chronic Disadaptations
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4 “Treating Not the Illness, but the Patient”: Integrative Medicine for Dislocated Bodies
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Published:01 June 2021
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Abstract
Chapter four follows Tibetan medicine into the clinic. It tracks patients and practitioners’ strategies of managing health in a clinical space that offers a mixture of therapeutic interventions and leaves the body radically open-ended. Here, Tibetan medicine is made to align with older rationales of Soviet-era biomedicine about health being the direct condensation of detrimental and beneficial environmental exposures, and the ailing body becomes narrated as an accumulation of collective pathogenic time, which these treatment regimes aim to redress or revert. Tracking how patients and doctors negotiate this sutured therapeutic orientation, this chapter also attends to the toggling between individualized care and apprehensions of embodied collectivity.
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