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This project investigates the rise of female Tibetan medicine practitioners, known as amchi, and their impact on community health. It examines how gender influences their medical practices and the health outcomes for women and children within Tibetan medicine, particularly amidst modernization.
Since the 1980s there has been a growth in the numbers of female Tibetan medicine practitioners, the so-called amchi, in areas where the Tibetan ‘science of healing’ (sowa rigpa) is practiced:
Tibetan areas of China, the Tibetan exile community in India, in Bhutan, Ladakh, Nepal, and in Buryatia and Mongolia.
It is currently little understood how the increasing numbers of women amchi have come about, what challenges and opportunities this growth has fostered for themselves and their patients, an…
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