Precious pills
Subtitle: medicine and social change among Tibetan refugees in India
By: Audrey Prost.
Series: Epistemologies of healing -- v. 2
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781845454579
Subjects: Medical anthropology -- India; Medical anthropology -- Tibet; Traditional medicine -- India; Traditional medicine -- Tibet; Tibetans -- Medicine -- India; Tibetans -- India -- Social conditions; Refugees -- Tibet; Refugees -- India
Description: "An ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditional Tibetan medical practices? This important volume not only explores how social changes linked to exile have influenced concepts of health and illness in the Tibetan refugee community but also investigates the contemporary role of traditional Tibetan medicine in exile."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.