Tawni Tidwell

Biocultural anthropologist; Tibetan medical doctor; member of the Thukdam Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds

Biocultural anthropologist, Tibetan medical doctor and member of the Thukdam Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds

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