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Tibetan ‘wind’ and ‘wind’ illnesses: towards a multicultural approach to health and illness
This article discusses the Tibetan notion of rlung, usually translated as: ‘wind’, but perhaps better understood as a close equivalent of pneuma in the Greek tradition, or qi in the Chinese tradition. The article focuses on the way rlung provides a useful prism through which concepts of health, illn...
Autor principal: | Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3384002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21112005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.10.005 |
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