All Stories

  1. A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine, written by C. Pierce Salguero

    Article • Asian Medicine, November 2022, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  2. Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry: Mental Health and Healing in a Tibetan Exile Community, written by Susannah Deane

    Article • Asian Medicine, November 2020, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  3. Coproducing Efficacious Medicines

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Barbara Gerke

  4. The Poison of Touch: Tracing Mercurial Treatments of Venereal Diseases in Tibet

    Article • Social History of Medicine, February 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Barbara Gerke

  5. Biographies and Knowledge Transmission of Mercury Processing in Twentieth Century Tibet

    Article • Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Barbara Gerke

  6. Manufacturing an IndustryManufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness. By Martin Saxer. Oxford: Berghahn, 2013.

    Article • Current Anthropology, February 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Barbara Gerke

  7. Editorial

    Article • Asian Medicine, September 2013, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  8. The Social Life of Tsotel

    Article • Asian Medicine, September 2013, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  9. Body and Spirit: Tibetan Medical Paintings. LailaWilliamson and SerinityYoung, eds. new york: american museum of natural history in association with university of washington press, seattle, 2009. 234 pp.

    Article • Museum Anthropology, March 2013, Wiley

    Barbara Gerke

  10. Long Lives and Untimely Deaths

    Article • January 2012, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  11. Treating Essence with Essence: Re-inventing bcud len as Vitalising Dietary Supplements in Contemporary Tibetan Medicine

    Article • Asian Medicine, January 2012, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  12. Kalte Kräuter und Heisse Bäder: Die Anwendung der Tibetischen Medizin in den Klöstern Amdos (‘Cold Herbs and Hot Baths: The Application of Tibetan Medicine in Amdo’s Monasteries’)

    Article • Asian Medicine, January 2009, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  13. Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice

    Article • Asian Medicine, January 2008, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  14. Engaging The Subtle Body: Re-Approaching Bla Rituals In The Himalaya

    Article • January 2007, Brill

    Barbara Gerke

  15. Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping. By John Hoberman. Pp. 381. (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005.) $24.95, ISBN 0-520-22151-6, hardback.

    Article • Journal of Biosocial Science, October 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Barbara Gerke

  16. Tradition and Modernity in Mongolian Medicine

    Article • The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, October 2004, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Barbara Gerke