skloos[at]gmail.com<\/a><\/span>
\nwww.stephankloos.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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2011-now: researcher at Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences<\/span><\/p>\n

2004-2010: PhD in Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco & Berkeley<\/span><\/p>\n

2000-2001: MSc Program in Medical Anthropology (participated), Brunel University, London, UK<\/span><\/p>\n

1995-2002: BA & MA (Magister) in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Universit\u00e4t Wien<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tibetan Medicine; Asian medical traditions; pharmaceutical assemblages; history of medicine; postcolonial theory; science studies<\/span><\/p>\n

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Research Area(s)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

India, China, Mongolia, Bhutan<\/span><\/p>\n

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Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Monographs and Edited Volumes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In preparation. \u2018Politics of Compassion: Tibetan Medicine and Nationalism in Exile\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

2004. \u2018Tibetan Medicine among the Buddhist Dards of Ladakh\u2019. Vienna: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, Heft 57, 183 pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Forthcoming. \u2018The Politics of Preservation and Loss: Tibetan Medical Knowledge in Exile\u2019. Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity.<\/span><\/p>\n

In press. \u2018How Tibetan Medicine Became a \u201cMedical System\u201d\u2019. East Asian Science, Technology and Society.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018Die Alchemie Exil-Tibetischer Identit\u00e4t: Anmerkungen zur pharmazeutischen und politischen Wirksamkeit tibetischer Pillen\u2019. Curare 35(3).<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018The History and Development of Tibetan Medicine in Exile\u2019. Tibet Journal 33(3): 15-49.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapters in Edited Books<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In press. \u2018Good Medicines, Bad Hearts: The Social Role of the Amchi in a Buddhist Dard Community\u2019. In: L. Pordi\u00e9 (ed.): Medicine at the Borders: The Social Life of Tibetan Medicine in India. Durham: Duke University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. \u2018Navigating \u201cModern Science\u201d and \u201cTraditional Culture\u201d: The Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India\u2019. In: Adams, V.; Schrempf, M. and S. Craig (eds.): Medicine between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds. pp. 83-105. Oxford\/New York: Berghahn Books.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006. \u2018Amchi Medizin zwischen Rand und Mitte\u2019. In: Gingrich, A. and G. Hazod (eds.): Der Rand und die Mitte. Beitr\u00e4ge zur Sozialanthropologie und Kulturgeschichte Tibets und des Himalaya. Wien: Verlag der \u00d6sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.<\/span><\/p>\n

2005. \u2018Le d\u00e9veloppement dans la n\u00e9gociation du pouvoir: Le cas de la medicine tib\u00e9taine \u00e0 Hanu, Inde Himalayenne\u2019. In: L. Pordi\u00e9 (ed.): Panser le monde, penser les m\u00e9decines. Essais sur les traditions m\u00e9dicales. pp. 101-122. Paris: Karthala.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2013. Review: \u2018Hofer, T. (2011) Tibetan Medicine on the Margins: Twentieth Century Transformations of the Traditions of Sowa Rigpa in Central Tibet, PhD Dissertation, University College London, 366 pages\u2019. Dissertationreviews.org<\/span><\/p>\n

2013. Review: \u2018Craig, S.R. (2012) Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 321 pages\u2019. Somatosphere.net | Science, Medicine, and Anthropology<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018Legends from Hanu: Oral Histories of the Buddhist Dards in Ladakh\u2019. Ladakh Studies Journal 28.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. Review: \u2018Fassin, D. (2012) Humanitarian Reason. A Moral History of the Present. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 336 pages\u2019. Social Anthropology 20(3): 338-339.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. Review: \u2018McGranahan, C. (2010) Arrested Histories. Tibet, the CIA, and memories of a forgotten war. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 307 pages\u2019. Social Anthropology 20(1): 115-116.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. Review: \u2018Prost, A. (2008) Precious Pills. Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 136 pages\u2019. Asian Medicine 4(2): 553-554.<\/span><\/p>\n

2006. Review: \u2018Adams, V. (1995) Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 304 pages\u2019. Amazon.com.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conference Presentations<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018The Interstitial Body: mapping the space between medicine and the nation\u2019 (invited panel organizer and chair), AG Medical Anthropology International Conference, Vienna.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018Of National Bodies, Borders, and Medical Nations: rethinking the body politic\u2019 (invited double panel chair, co-organizer and discussant), American Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018Alternate Imaginaries: Tibetan medicine, ethical bodies, and the modern nation\u2019, (invited paper), American Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018The Politics of Preservation and Loss: Tibetan Medical Knowledge in Exile\u2019 (invited paper), Universit\u00e4t Rostock 6th Symposium on Cultural Encounters and the Discourse of Scholarship.<\/span><\/p>\n

2012. \u2018Introduction to Medical Anthropology\u2019 (3 day invited seminar), Central University for Tibetan Studies, Sarnath.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. \u2018Making a \u201cMedical System\u201d: Tibetan Medicine in Exile\u2019 (invited paper), Cardiff University.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. \u2018When Experts Meet: the politics of theorizing the other\u2019, American Anthropological Association Conference, Montreal.<\/span><\/p>\n

2011. \u2018Die Alchemie exil-tibetischer Identit\u00e4t: Anmerkungen zur pharmazeutischen und politischen Wirksamkeit tibetischer Pillen\u2019, Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde \u2013 Tagung.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. \u2018Wie \u201cwissenschaftlich\u201d ist die Tibetische Medizin? Beobachtungen zur Effektivit\u00e4t, Qualit\u00e4t und \u00dcberpr\u00fcfbarkeit eines traditionellen Heilsystems\u2019 (invited paper), Bhutan Exhibition, Wien Energie Haus.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. \u2018Tibetan Medicine in Exile: the ethics, politics and science of cultural survival\u2019, University of California, San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n

2010. \u2018Of Potency and Impotence: Traditional Tibetan Medicine and Modern Quality Control\u2019, Austrian Academy of Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Joining Forces: The Marriage of Modern Science and Tibetan Medicine in Exile\u2019, 7th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines, IASTAM.<\/span><\/p>\n

2009. \u2018Is Tibetan Medicine \u201cIndian\u201d? The Recognition of Sowa Rigpa in India\u2019, 7th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines, IASTAM.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018Marketing the Tibetan Cause: Tibetan Medicine between Business and Politics\u2019 (invited paper), Indian Institute of Advanced Study.<\/span><\/p>\n

2008. \u2018Shifting Registers of Illegitimacy: Tibetan Medicine in India\u2019 (invited paper), French Institute of Pondicherry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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