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Names: Hofer, Theresia, author.
Title: Medicine and memory in Tibet : Amchi physicians in an age of reform / Theresia Hofer.
Description: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2018. | Series: Studies on ethnic groups in China | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017029406 (print) | LCCN 2017028012 (ebook) | ISBN 9780295742984 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780295742991 (paperback : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780295743004 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Medicine, Tibetan—History—20th century. | Medicine, Tibetan—History—21st century. | Physicians—China—Tibet Autonomous Region—History. | Memory—Social aspects—China—Tibet Autonomous Region—History. | Social networks—China—Tibet Autonomous Region—History. | Ethnicity—China—Tibet Autonomous Region—History. | Social change—China—Tibet Autonomous Region—History. | Tibet Autonomous Region (China)—Social conditions. | Tibet Autonomous Region (China)—Relations—China. | China—Relations—China—Tibet Autonomous Region.
Classification: LCC R603.T5 H65 2018 (ebook) | LCC R603.T5 (print) | DDC 610.951/5-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017029406