Entangled Medical Futures

Plural Medicine, Climate-Altered Worlds, and More-Than-Human Care in Highland Asia

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2025.12025

Keywords:

medical pluralism, Highland Asia, entanglement, more-than-human care, ecological change

Abstract

This conference report documents Entangled Medical Futures, a three-day workshop held in Edinburgh that brought together scholars and clinicians to examine plural medical worlds in Highland Asia. Focusing on therapeutic practice amid ecological change, infrastructural precarity, and shifting expectations of care, the discussions foregrounded healing as a relational, multispecies, and ethically situated process. Across ethnographic, historical, and clinical perspectives, the workshop highlighted how medical pluralism in highland contexts challenges linear models of health, governance, and expertise.

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Author Biography

  • Michael T. Heneise, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

    Michael T. Heneise is an anthropologist whose research focuses on Indigenous knowledge systems, medical pluralism, and ecological change in Highland Asia. He is Editor-in-Chief of HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and Director of Høylandsinstituttet (Norway). He also serves as President of the Highland Institute (India).

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Published

23-Jan-2026

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 2 (2025)

Section

Conference Reports

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Copyright (c) 2026 Michael T. Heneise

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How to Cite

Entangled Medical Futures: Plural Medicine, Climate-Altered Worlds, and More-Than-Human Care in Highland Asia. (2026). HIMALAYA, 44(2), 87-90. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2025.12025