Tawni Tidwell

Tawni Tidwell is a Tibetan medical doctor and biocultural anthropologist. Her current work bridges Western and Tibetan medical approaches to wellness at the Center for Healthy Minds at University of Wisconsin-Madison, while seeing patients in her private clinical practice. She completed a postdoc with the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Social Anthropology (ISA) on the ERC-funded Project RATIMED (Reassembling Tibetan Medicine) and earned her PhD from Emory University.

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Covid-19 and Tibetan Medicine: An Awakening Tradition in a New Era of Global Health Crisis

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Covid-19 and Tibetan Medicine: An Awakening Tradition in a New Era of Global Health Crisis

Days after news hit the Tibetan plateau of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, provincial health bureaus and central Tibetan medical institutions across th... More