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OverviewWithin 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martin SaxerPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Volume: 12 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.576kg ISBN: 9780857457721ISBN 10: 0857457721 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Transcription Acronyms Map of Tibet Cast of Main Characters Chapter 1. Introduction Perspectives on Tibetan medicine Aku Jinpa Official Views The Topic of Inquiry Industrial Modernities Tibetanness and the Moral Space of Tradition The Industry as Assemblage Language and Terminology Chapter 2. The Creation of an Industry Sowa Rigpa and TCM - Different Trajectories Interference and Non-Interference The Making of TCM Tentative Integration of Sowa Rigpa Textbooks, Standardised Practice and Pharmacy From Pharmacy to Factory Reform and Revival Socialist Market Economy Founding Shongpalhachu Tibetan Drug Standards and Chinese Pharmacopoeia The Introduction of Good Manufacturing Practice Ownership and Investment Relations Between GMP Factories and Hospitals The SFDA and National Drug Registration The Size of the Industry Forces at Work Chapter 3. Manufacturing Good Practice GMP in China The Steps of Production Sourcing and Storage of Raw Materials Simple Pre-Processing: Washing, Trimming, Sorting Complex Pre-Processing: Tsothal Grinding, Mixing, and Making Pills Sterilisation Drying Rationales, Practicalities Validation Self-Inspection Chapter 4. Raw Materials, Refined Domestic Sourcing Strategies Long-term Relations to Village Collectors Cultivation Commercial Traders Transnational Trade and Border Regimes Import licences Trader Tactics Taxonomy and Legibility Business Cultures CITES and Nepalese Authorities Baru Gyatig Back to Tibet Tactics and Strategies Chapter 5. Knowledge, Property Owners and Pirates The Problem of Patents Precious Pills, Precious Properties Filtering Knowledge 'Old' and 'New' Knowledge Randomised Controlled Trials The Knowledge Commodity Decoupling Forms of Knowledge Property, Knowledge Chapter 6. The Aesthetic Enterprise Disenchantment, Enchantment Mendrup Rituals of GMP Packaging Remedies Design Materiality Advertisement Three Campaigns Visual Themes The Buddhist Company Yuthog Spiritual Spa Arura's Museum Enchanting Whom? Chapter 7. The Moral Economy of Tibetanness The Tibetanness Economy Preservation and Development Civilisation, Culture Theme Parks: Manufacturing Minzu Exhibiting Sowa Rigpa and a Farewell to GMP Morality and Spectacles of Authenticity Real and Fake Profit and the Ethics of Being a Doctor The Problem of Trust Balancing Profit with Altruism Morality at Large Building a Harmonious Society, Resisting Culture The Moral Economy at Large Chapter 8. Conclusions Fallacies One - Industry and Modernism Two - Globalisation and Sinicisation Three - Knowledge Assemblage, Revisited Contemporary by Assemblage Territorial by Assemblage Bibliography GlossaryReviewsThis is an outstanding piece of scholarship... the overall structure of the book is excellent. * Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College This is a timely and well-researched work that brings into focus the intersection between a globally expanding market in Tibetan medicine, the lived practice of medicine production, and issues pertinent to Tibetan identity. It is engaging and insightful, and nicely grounded ethnographically. * Denise M. Glover, University of Puget Sound ...a highly readable exploration of medical, socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic issues in the industrial production of Tibetan medicine in the PRC. The author approaches this subject with a pleasing curiosity, often questioning in unexpected ways assumptions that are regularly made about Tibet. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. * Theresia Hofer, University of Oslo This is an outstanding piece of scholarship... the overall structure of the book is excellent. * Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College This is a timely and well-researched work that brings into focus the intersection between a globally expanding market in Tibetan medicine, the lived practice of medicine production, and issues pertinent to Tibetan identity. It is engaging and insightful, and nicely grounded ethnographically. * Denise M. Glover, University of Puget Sound ...a highly readable exploration of medical, socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic issues in the industrial production of Tibetan medicine in the PRC. The author approaches this subject with a pleasing curiosity, often questioning in unexpected ways assumptions that are regularly made about Tibet. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. * Theresia Hofer, University of Oslo This is an outstanding piece of scholarship - the overall structure of the book is excellent. * Sienna Craig, Dartmouth College This is a timely and well-researched work that brings into focus the intersection between a globally expanding market in Tibetan medicine, the lived practice of medicine production, and issues pertinent to Tibetan identity. It is engaging and insightful, and nicely grounded ethnographically. * Denise M. Glover, University of Puget Sound - a highly readable exploration of medical, socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic issues in the industrial production of Tibetan medicine in the PRC. The author approaches this subject with a pleasing curiosity, often questioning in unexpected ways assumptions that are regularly made about Tibet. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. * Theresia Hofer, University of Oslo Author InformationMartin Saxer received a PhD 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. He is the director of the documentary film 'Journeys with Tibetan Medicine' and runs the visual ethnography blog theotherimage.com. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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