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There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas; practices; technologies and outcomes - across cultural; national; geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems; with many centuries of technological; clinical; and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia; Tibet (TAR) and China; Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore; in equal measure; the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e.; among Tibetans across China; the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such "science" gets done; and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such; this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.