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See also: https://univie.academia.edu/BarbaraGerke
Monograph
Forthcoming (2019). Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice, Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
Peer-reviewed Publications
2019 (forthcoming) The Buddhist-Medical Interface in Tibet: Black Pill Traditions in Transformation. Religions (Special Issue: “Buddhist Medicine in India, Tibet, and Mongolia,” edited by Vesna Wallace).
2019 (forthcoming) The Potency of ‘Tradition’: Processing Turquoise, Coral, and Pearl in Sowa Rigpa. Himalaya (Special Issue: Materiality, Efficacy, and the Politics of Potent Substances across Asia. edited by Barbara Gerke and Jan van der Valk). 39 (1).
2019 (forthcoming). Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills. In Knowledge and Context in the Tibetan Medical Tradition. PIATS 2016: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Bergen, 2016, edited by W. McGrath. Leiden: Brill.
2018 The Signature of Recipes: Authorship, Intertextuality and the Epistemic Genre of Tibetan Formulas. Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 45: 178-220. http://www.sfemt.fr/publication-de-la-revue-detudes-tibetaines-n-45/; [PDF]
2017 Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics. History of Science in South Asia [Proceedings of AyurYog Workshop, Rejuvenation, Longevity, Immortality. Perspectives on rasāyana, kāyakalpa and bcud len practices, Vienna 2016] no. 5 (2):204-233. https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa.v5i2.15; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5271-8394; [PDF]
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/15
2016 with Sienna Craig: Naming and Forgetting: Sowa Rigpa and the Recognition of Asian Medical Systems. Medicine Anthropology Theory 3 (2): 87-122. http://doi.org/10.17157/mat.3.2.350
Non peer-reviewed BOOK CHAPTERS
2017a: with Florian Ploberger. Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises. In Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, edited by P. Salguero. New York: Columbia University Press, 583-592. ISBN: 9780231179942. DOI: 10.7312/salg17994-062. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/salg17994.
2017b: with Florian Ploberger. The Final Doubt and the Entrustment of Tibetan Medical Knowledge. In Buddhism and Medicine An Anthology of Premodern Sources, edited by P. C. Salguero. New York: Columbia University Press, 593-601. ISBN: 9780231179942. DOI: 10.7312/salg17994-063. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/salg17994.
2016a: When ngülchu is not Mercury: Tibetan Taxonomies of Metals. In Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy. Metals, Gems and Minerals in South Asian Religions and Culture, edited by F. Ferrari and T. Dähnhardt. Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox, 116-140. ISBN-13 9781781791288.
2016b: Buddhist Healing and Taming in Tibet. In Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, edited by M. Jerryson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 576-590. ISBN: 9780199362387.
BOOK REVIEWS
2018 (in press). Review of “The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision Making in Bhutan.” by Jonathan Taee, 2017. Anthropos. October issue.
2017 Review of “Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet” by Frances Garrett, 2008. Traditional South Asian Medicine 9: 248-253. ISBN: 9783954902750.
2016 Review of “Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet” by Janet Gyatso, 2015. Himalaya 36 (1): 196-198. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol36/iss1/26
2016 Review of “The social life of Tibetan biography. The Social Life of Tibetan Biography: Textuality, Community, and Authority in the Lineage of Tokden Shakya Shri” by Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, 2014. Asian Highlands Perspective 40: 395-402. http://tibetanplateau.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Barbara+Gerke
REPORTS
2017 (December) 100th Anniversary Celebrations of the Men–Tsee–Khang – Dharamsala, India. Himalaya: the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: 37(2): 124-126. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/19. A longer version of the report will appear in The Tibet Journal, summer 2018.
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