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Publications by Tawni Tidwell
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Tidwell, T. (2024). Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 49, 434-464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-023-09844-2
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Tidwell, T., Eisenberg, L. E., Fedotov, A., Kokurina, E., Boytsova, J., Desel, T., Sangpo, L., Norbu, N., Chokdrup, J., Tsering, D., Sherap, T., Chhonden, T., Dorje, Y., Lama, C., Lhundup, K., Jamyang, Lharkyab, Phuntsok, L., Wangchuk, T., Lhakpa, S., Namgyal, L., Dorjee, Y., Lobsang, T., Zhironkina, Y., Goldman, R. I., Namdul, T., Blake, K. E., Tesch, E., Sangmo, R., Dunne, J. D., Nagendra, R. P., Kutty, B. M., Rinpoche, T. T., Tamdin, T., Sadutshang, T. D., Davidson, R. J., & Medvedev, S. (2024). Delayed decompositional changes in indoor settings among Tibetan monastic communities in India: A case report. Forensic Science International: Reports, 9, 100370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2024.100370
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Tidwell, T., Namdul, T., Lee, K. E., Riordan, K. M., Skopicki, N., Palkyi, T., Jungney, J., Blake, K., Cheme, J., Namseling, N. Y., Yangzom, D., Tsomo, T., Ridak, D., Gyal, Y., Dakpa, T., Nyinda, T. S., Nyinda, N. G., Youdon, T., Weil, A., Kalzang, Y., Wangmo, P., Dhondrup, R., Weirich, E., Craig, S., & Rosenkranz, M. (2024). Effect of Tibetan Herbal Formulas on Symptom Duration Among Ambulatory Patients with Native SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity Integrative, 5, 100051. doi: 10.1016/j.bbii.2024.100051
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Dhondrup, R., T. Tidwell, X. Zhang, X. Feng, L. Dhondrup, Q. Hua, D. Geri, D.S. Suonan, G Fan, S. Gyal. (2023). Tibetan medicine Liuwei Muxiang Pills (LWMX pills) effectively protect mice from chronic non-atrophic gastritis. Phytomedicine, 115, 154826. doi: 10.1016/j.phymed.2023.154826
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Tidwell, T. & K. Sabernig. (2023). Guts in Tibetan Medicine. Comparative Guts: Exploring the Inside of the Body through Time and Space. Curated online exhibit and photographic publication. Eds. Chiara Thumiger and Angelika Messner. Roots Cluster of Excellence: Kiel University.
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Tidwell, T. (2023). Tibetan Medical Anatomy of the Gut. Invisible Guts: Imaging the 'guts' through the five senses, for and with a visually impaired public and beyond. Curated online selected images and olfactory experience descriptions. Ed. Chiara Thumiger. Roots Cluster of Excellence: Kiel University.
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Tidwell, T., Nianggajia, & Fjeld, H. E. (2022). Chasing dön spirits in Tibetan medical encounters: Transcultural affordances and embodied psychiatry in Amdo, Qinghai. Transcultural Psychiatry, 59(5). DOI: 10.1177/1363461522112605
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Tidwell, T. & Gyamtso, K. (2021). Tibetan Medical Paradigms for the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Understandings of COVID-19, Microbiome Links, and Its Sowa Rigpa Nosology. Asian Medicine, 16(1), 89-127. doi:10.1163/15734218-12341485.
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Dhondrup, W., D. Tso, R. Wangyal, G. Dhondrup, Z. Liu, T. Dolma, Y. Zhang, T. Tidwell. (2020). Dataset of Illness Classifications in Sowa Rigpa: Compilations from the Oral Instructions Treatise of the Tibetan Medical Classic (Rgyud bzhi). Data in Brief, 29,105321. doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105321
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Dhondrup, W., T. Tidwell, X. Wang, D. Tso, G. Dhondrup, Q. Luo, C. Wangmo, T. Kyi, Y. Liu, X. Meng, Y. Zhang. (2020). Tibetan Medical Informatics: An Emerging Field in Sowa Rigpa Pharmacological & Clinical Research. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 250, 112481. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2019.112481
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Jingnan, L., T. Tidwell, H. Zhao, L. Jialin, W. Jiajie, M. Meng, W. Li, W. Huichao, C. Wei, H. Mengling, R. Xiaoqiao, & L. Tonghua. (2020). Theoretical Characteristics of Tibetan Medicine. World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 6(4): 490-499. doi:10.4103/wjtcm.wjtcm_65_20.
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Kloos, S., H. Madhavan, T. Tidwell, C. Blaikie, and M. Cuomu. (2020). The Transnational Sowa Rigpa Industry in Asia: Preliminary Figures on an Emerging Economy. Social Science and Medicine, 245, 112617. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112617
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Tidwell, T. (2020). "Covid-19 and Tibetan Medicine: An Awakening Tradition in a New Era of Global Health Crisis." Hot Spots, Fieldsights, online series from Journal of Cultural Anthropology.
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Tidwell, T. (2020). Blood and Chuser across Research Paradigms: Constitutive Links in Mapping Biomedical Cancer Maps into Tibetan Medical Nosology. Asian Medicine,15(2), 209-250. doi:10.1163/15734218-12341451.
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Wangyal, R, T. Tidwell, W. Dhondrup, T. Yungdrung, G. Dhondrup, Q. X. He, & Y. Zhang. (2020). Dataset of Materia Medica in Sowa Rigpa: Tibetan Medicine Compilations and Gawé Dorjé’s Classification System. Data in Brief, 33, 106498. doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.106498.
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Tidwell, T. (2019). Collapsing Cancer: An hermeneutical and praxis-based comparative analysis of cancer and Tibetan medical etiological categories. In W. McGrath (Ed.), Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine (140-196). Brill Publishers.
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Tidwell, T. and J. H. Nettles. (2019). Conceptions of Potency, Purity, and Synergy-by-Design: Toward developing a Sowa Rigpa medical theory-based approach to pharmaceutical research. HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 23(1),129-149. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2471&context=himalaya
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Yeshi, K., Y. Gyal, K. Saberning, J. Phuntshok, T. Tidwell, T. Jamtsho, R. Dhondup, E. Tokar, and P. Wangchuk. (2019). Ethnotaxonomical concepts of Sowa Rigpa pharmacopoeae, botanical identification and the scientific status of the medicinal plants inhabiting the Eastern Himalayas of Bhutan. European Journal of Integrative Medicine, 100927. doi:10.1016/j.eujim.2019.100927.
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Bauer-Wu, S., C. Ozawa-de Silva, T. Lhundup, D.R. Neshar, P. Dorjee, T. Tidwell. (2014). “Tibetan Medicine for Cancer: An Overview and Review of Case Studies.” Journal of Integrative Cancer Therapies, 13(6), 502-12. doi:10.1177/1534735414549624