Dear Colleagues,
I would like to announce the publication of my new book, Being Human in a
Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet,
published by Columbia University Press. The book explores the
disjunctions and conjunctions between Buddhism and medical science in Tibet, in
light of a range of cultural, ethical, historiographical,and political
issues. It also reflects upon Tibetan medicine in the context of other
medical traditions in the period (12th-18th centuries), particularly but not
only Ayurveda.
This is the table of contents:
Introduction
Part I: In the Capital
1. Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the
State.
2. Anatomy of an Attitude: Medicine Comes of Age
Part II: Bones of Contention
3. The Word of the Buddha
4. The Evidence of the Body: Medical Channels, Tantric Knowing
5. Tangled Up in System: The Heart, in the Text and in the Hand
Coda: Influence, Rhetoric, and Riding Two Horses at Once
Part III: Roots of the Profession
6. Women and Gender
7. The Ethics of Being Human: The Doctor's Formation in a
Material Realm
Conclusion: Ways and Means for Medicine
Here is the website for the book. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/being-human-in-a-buddhist-world/9780231164962
If you use the code GYABEI when you order from this website, you will receive a
30% discount off the current full price ($45.00/£30.95) of the book.
Thank you for your attention, and best wishes to all.
Janet
Janet Gyatso
Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies
Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, Ma 02138
