17 January 2001
Tibetan medicine in Dundee
Traditional practices of medicine from the ancient foothills of Tibet
will be illuminated at the University of Dundee this weekend with a lecture
as part of the popular Saturday Evening Public Lecture series.
Dr Charles Clarke, an expert on high altitude medicine and consultant
neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in
London, will explore practices of traditional Tibetan medicine and talk
about his own recent explorations on Everest and in China. He will
discuss his specialist subject with the Dundee audience explaining how our
understanding of the lack of oxygen at high altitudes has developed over
the years.
Dr Clarke has been a keen climber since the late 1950s, taking part in
many Himalayan expeditions and trips to remote parts of central Asia
including Everest in 1982 and most recently Sepu Kangri, Tibet in 1996, 97 and 98.
In 1998 Dr Clarke travelled with a companion though central Tibet.
Together they made the first journey by Europeans through the remote Nyenchen
Tanglha Range. He revisited the Nyenchan Tanglha in summer 2000.
This lecture which is free and starts at 7pm in the Tower Lecture
Theatre, is the third in the January series of Saturday evening lectures at the
University of Dundee. This winter's programme deals with various
contentious issues ranging from parenting to the ethics of the internet.
Rounding off the series on 17 February will be Lord Robertson, Secretary
General of NATO lecturing in his alma mater on the place of NATO and the
challenges of the new millennium./ends