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“We Are Not Iron That We Need Tempering”

Chapter five looks at the frictions at the core of projects of medical integration. It follows the ways in which local actors involved with Tibetan medicine, both inside the clinic and outside of it, “regionalize” biomedicine as a specific and cultural formation, entangled with and therefore inflected by the political and ideological interests of the state. Mobilizing claims to distinct, local biologies, these practitioners suggest that the body implicit in “modern medicine” is not an adequate “base line” for a universal therapeutic practice. In these accounts, Tibetan medicine becomes a more cosmopolitan ground for treatment—and for the possibilities of medical integration—than the one offered by modern biomedicine.