Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness

Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People's Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies.

Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met with harsh criticism in Tibet.

At stake is a fundamental (re-)manufacturing of Tibetan medicine as a system of knowledge and practice. Being important both to the agenda of the Party State's policies on Tibet and to Tibetan self-understanding, the Tibetan medicine industry has become an arena in which different visions of Tibet's future clash.

Author: Martin Saxer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 04/01/2013
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780857457721

About the Author
Saxer, Martin: -

Martin Saxer received a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Since 2003, he has worked on the history and contemporary practice of Tibetan medicine in Russia (Buryatia) and Tibet. 

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