ReOrienting Histories of Medicine : Encounters along the Silk Roads (Paperback)

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Transliterations and Abbreviations Introduction: Medical Encounters along the Silk Roads 1. Narrating Eurasian Origins of Medical Knowledge 2. Of Dice and Medicine: Interactions in Central Asian 'Contact Zones' 3. Myrobalans: The Making of a Eurasian Panacea 4. Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang: Practices and Images on the Move 5. Medicine of the Bakhshis: Cross-Pollinations in Buddhist Iran Afterword Bibliography Index