Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004 Only fifty years
ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of
Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated
through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory
in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and
sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet's medical
establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical
practitioners, or amchi, and of Medical Houses in the west-central
region of Tsang. Due to difficult research access and the power of
state institutions in the writing of history, the perspectives of
more marginal amchi have been absent from most accounts of Tibetan
medicine. Theresia Hofer breaks new ground both theoretically and
ethnographically, in ways that would be impossible in today's more
restrictive political climate that severely limits access for
researchers. She illuminates how medical practitioners safeguarded
their professional heritage through great adversity and personal
hardship.
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