Precious Pills : : Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India / / Audrey Prost.

• VerfasserIn: Prost, Audrey,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgements --; Note on Transliteration and the Wylie System --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I Inequalities in Exile --; Chapter 1 ‘Because we are Tibetans …’: Talking about Health --; Chapter 2 ‘India is the Happiest Place!’: Contextualising Exile --; Chapter 3 The Pathogenic Nature of Exile --; Chapter 4 From ‘Old-timers’ to ‘Newcomers’: Social Inequalities in the Diaspora --; Part II The Role of Traditional Tibetan Medicine --; Chapter 5 The Mentsikhang: Construing Traditional Authority --; Chapter 6 Humours on Trial: The Mentsikhang’s Dilemmas --; Epilogue --; Glossary of Tibetan Words with Wylie Spellings --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450128
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450128
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Audrey Prost.

Through 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? It explores how social changes linked to exile have influenced concepts of health and illness in the Tibetan refugee community of Dharamsala and by looking at recent changes in the theory and practice of traditional Tibetan medicine investigates the role of traditional Tibetan medicine in sustaining public health in the exile community.