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Dr. Barbara Gerke, MSc
https://www.univie.ac.at/preciouspills/
Gerke, B. (2021). Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice. (1 ed.) Heidelberg University Publishing. Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality Vol. 7 https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.746
Gerke, B. (2020). Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry: Mental Health and Healing in a Tibetan Exile Community, written by Susannah Deane. Asian Medicine, 15(1), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341467
Craig, S. R. (Author), Gerke, B. (Author), & Van der Valk, J. (Author). (2020). Asian Medicines, COVID-19 and the Politics of Science: An Unpublished Letter to the Editor of Nature. Web publication
Craigh, S. R., Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2020). Asian Medicines and Covid-19: An Introduction. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/asian-medicines-and-covid-19-an-introduction
Craigh, S. R., Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2020). Responding to an Unfolding Pandemic: Asian Medicines and Covid-19. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/responding-to-an-unfolding-pandemic-asian-medicines-and-covid-19
Gerke, B. (2020). Sowa Rigpa in Lockdown: On the Potency and Politics of Prevention. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/sowa-rigpa-in-lockdown-on-the-potency-and-politics-of-prevention
Gerke, B. (Author). (2020). Pre-COVID-19: A visit to Dharamsala, India (February 2020). Web publication
Gerke, B. (2020). Thinking through complex webs of potency: Early Tibetan medical responses to the emerging coronavirus epidemic: Notes from a field visit to Dharamsala, India. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 7(1). http://doi.org/10.17157/mat.7.1.789
Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (Eds.) (2019). Materiality, Efficacy, and the Politics of Potent Substances across Asia. (1 ed.) Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.
Gerke, B. (2019). Material Presentations and Cultural Drug Translations of Contemporary Tibetan Precious Pills. In W. A. McGrath (Ed.), Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Bergen, 2016 (pp. 337–367 ). Brill. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library Vol. 43 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004404441_011
Gerke, B. (2019). The Buddhist–Medical Interface in Tibet: Black Pill Traditions in Transformation. Religions, 10(4), [282]. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040282
Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2019). Introduction: Approaching Potent Substances in Medicine and Ritual across Asia. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 69-73.
Gerke, B., Van der Valk, J., & Triplett, K. (2019). Potent Substances in a Thirteenth Century Japanese Scroll Painting. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 4-8. [5]. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/5
Craig, S. R., Gerke, B., & Sheldon, V. (2019). Sowa Rigpa Humanitarianism: Local Logics of Care within a Global Politics of Compassion. Medical Anthropology Quarterly: international journal for the cultural and social analysis of health, 34(2), 174-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12561
Gerke, B. (2019). The Potency of Tradition: Turquoise, Coral, and Pearl in Sowa Rigpa. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 91-110. [13]. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/13
Gerke, B. (2019). Theresia Hofer, Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform. Asian Ethnology, 78(1), 256-258.
Gerke, B. (2018). “The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision Making in Bhutan” by Jonathan Taee. Anthropos, 113, 761-762.
Gerke, B. (2018). The Signature of Recipes: Authorship, Intertextuality and the Epistemic Genre of Tibetan Formulas. Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, 45, 178-220.
Gerke, B. (2017). 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. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/19/
Gerke, B., & Ploberger, F. (2017). Jewels in Medicines: On the Processing and Efficacy of Precious Pills According to the Four Treatises. In P. Salguero (Ed.), Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology (pp. 583-592). Columbia University Press.

Tibetan Spiritual Ecologies of Substances: The Anti-Epidemic “9-Compound Black Pill” (nag po dgu sbyor)

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

6 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Depicting poisons, contagion, and antidotes in Tibetan medical paintings of the 17th century

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

4 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Artisanship in Sowa Rigpa Medicine Making

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

16 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

When Practice Contradicts Texts: The Use of Panacea in Sowa Rigpa

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

27 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Potency, poison cultures, and the politics of toxicity: Processing mercury in Asian medicines

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

21 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Artisanship and "Potency-in-Becoming"

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

14 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What Makes a Substance Potent? Senses, Substances, and the Art of Tibetan Pharmacology

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

21 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Enhancing the Potency of Substances in Sowa Rigpa: Chongzhi (cong zhi), the ‘Essence of Stones’

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

11 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

"Potency-in-Becoming": Artisanship among Amchi Practitioners Making Sowa Rigpa Medicines in Ladakh

Barbara Gerke (Speaker) & Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)

31 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills: A Project Exhibition at ISTB

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

18 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Sterben am Ganges: Hospize in Varanasi, Indien

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

10 Jan 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Starting and running an NGO in India in my Twenties

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

4 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Tod und Sterben in Indien

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

14 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The Globalization of Asian Medicines

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

14 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Precious Substances in Tibetan Pharmacopoeia: Exploring Tibetan Jewel Pill Ingredients

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

2 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

On the History and Manufacturing of Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

26 Sep 2017 → 29 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Challenges in Translating Epistemologies of Toxicity in Tibetan Medical Texts and Ethnographic Encounters

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

11 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Potency of Preciousness: Gems as Potent Substances in Sowa Rigpa Pharmacopoeia

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

8 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Entangled Efficacies in the Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

2 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Reformulations in Sowa Rigpa: Thinking about “Classical Formulas” Taking the Example of Tibetan Precious Pills

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

14 Feb 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Mercury as a chülen in Tibetan traditions

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

21 Oct 2016 → 22 Oct 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Potent substances in Tibetan multicompound formulas: Anthropological considerations

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

1 Sep 2016 → 4 Sep 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The Signature of Recipes: Genre, Authenticity and the Development of Tibetan Precious Pill Formulas

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

16 Jun 2016 → 24 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

On the Sensory Engagement with Poisonous Substances: 'Taming' Poisons into Elixirs in Tibetan Pharmacological Practices

Barbara Gerke (Speaker)

13 Jun 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Potent Substances in Sowa Riga and Buddhist Rituals

Gerke, B. & Van der Valk, J.

11/06/18 → 10/08/22

Project: Research funding

Biografien Tibetischer Kostbarp

Gerke, B.

11/05/15 → 31/01/18

Project: Research funding

Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien

barbara.gerke@univie.ac.at