Their Footprints Remain: Biomedical Beginnings Across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier

Alex McKay

doi:10.1017/9789048501243

By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries had introduced Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Their Footprints Remain uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascinating story of how this once-new medical system became imbedded in the Himalayas. Of interest to anyone with an interest in medical history and anthropology, as well as the Himalayan world, this volume not only identifies the individuals involved and describes how they helped to spread this form of imperialist medicine, but also discusses its reception by a local people whose own medical practices were based on an entirely different understanding of the world.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-8

Acknowledgements
pp 9-12

List of Maps and Tables
pp 13-14

Glossary
pp 15-18

Introduction
pp 19-54

1 - Missionary Medicine and the Rise of Kalimpong
pp 55-84

2 - Sikkim: Imperial Stepping-stone to Tibet
pp 85-114

3 - Biomedicine and Buddhist Medicine in Tibet
pp 115-142

4 - Medical Myths and Tibetan Trends
pp 143-172

5 - Bhutan: A Later Development
pp 173-204

6 - The Choice of Systems
pp 205-228

Conclusions
pp 229-244

Appendix: Attendance at Gyantse and Yatung IMS Dispensaries
pp 245-248

Notes
pp 249-284

Bibliography
pp 285-302

Index
pp 303-312

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