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Author McKay, Alex.

Title Their footprints remain : biomedical beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan frontier / Alex McKay.

Publication Info. [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations.
Series IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 1
IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Summary "By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries began to introduce 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"--Publisher's description.
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; Ch. 1: On the topological complexity of three languages; Ch. 2: Nondeterministic controllers of nondeterministic processes; Ch. 3: Reachability in continuous-time Markov reward decision preocesses; Ch. 4: Logical theories and compatible operations; Ch. 5: Forest algebras; Ch. 6: Automata and semigroups recognizing infinite words; Ch. 7: Deterministic graph grammars; Ch. 8: Quantifier-free definable graph operations preserving recognizability; Ch. 9: First-order definable languages; Ch. 10 : Matrix-based complexity functions and recognizable picture languages.
Subject Medicine -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine -- History -- 20th century.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
Sikkim (India)
Bhutan.
Religious Missions -- history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Medicine, East Asian Traditional -- history.
Bhutan.
Sikkim.
Tibet Autonomous Region.
China.
MEDICAL -- History.
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and culture: general.
Humanities.
History.
HISTORY -- General.
Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
Bhutan. (OCoLC)fst01207216
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. (OCoLC)fst01758817
India -- Sikkim. (OCoLC)fst01208208
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Indexed Term Culture and institutions
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: McKay, Alex. Their footprints remain. [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007 9789053565186 9053565183 (OCoLC)192072380
ISBN 9789048501243 (electronic bk.)
9048501245 (electronic bk.)
9789053565186
9053565183
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