Their Footprints Remain(English, Paperback, McKay Alex)

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Their Footprints Remain(English, Paperback, McKay Alex) is written by McKay Alex and published by Amsterdam University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9053565183 (ISBN 10) and 9789053565186 (ISBN 13).

By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries began to introduce Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan. Their Footprints Remain uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascinating story of how this once-new medical system became imbedded in the Himalayas. Of interest to anyone with an interest in medical history and anthropology, as well as the Himalayan world, this volume not only identifies the individuals involved and describes how they helped to spread this form of imperialist medicine, but also discusses its reception by a local people whose own medical practices were based on an entirely different understanding of the world.