Taming the Poisonous : : Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice / / Barbara Gerke.
This rich ethnographic and socio-historical account uncovers how toxicity and safety are expressed transculturally in a globalizing world. For the first time, it unpacks the "pharmaceutical nexus" of mercury in Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa) where, since the thirteenth century, it has mainl...
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| Superior document: | Heidelberg studies on transculturality |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heidelberg studies on transculturality.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (v, 379 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, portraits. |
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Table of Contents:
- A Note on Tibetan and Sanskrit Terms
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- 1. Introduction: "It takes time to tame a wild horse"
- 2. Setting the Scene: Poison and Potency
- 3. The Pharmaceutical Nexus of Mercury Practices
- 4. History and Knowledge Transmission
- 5. Blood and Semen: Women and Mercury
- 6. The Evidence of Safety
- 7. Taming the Poisonous and the Potent
- 8. Conclusions
- Appendices
- Glossaries of Tibetan and Sanskrit Terms
- References
- Index.