Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness (Epistemologies of Healing)

Within a mere decade, the creation of a Tibetan medicine industry in the People's Republic of China has resulted in hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of China being converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nation-wide market.

• | Author: Martin Saxer
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: April 01, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0857457721
• | ISBN-13: 9780857457721