Faculty Psychotherapy Science
E-mail
katharina.sabernig@uni-ak.ac.atLocation Vienna
Field of work
Lecturer
Resume
Katharina Sabernig is an independent researcher associated with the Medical University in Vienna and the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She teaches various areas of Tibetan medicine, medical terminology and aspects of intercultural health issues at several academic institutions in Vienna. She has led FWF-funded projects on medical murals in Labrang Monastery and the anatomical findings of the Tibetan physician Blo-bzang-chos-grags (1638-1712), who was also personal physician to the Fifth Dalai Lama.
Teaching focus: Tibetan medicine, medical terminology, history of anatomy.
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