Precious Pills : : Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India / / 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 Tib...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t List of Figures and Tables -- |t Acknowledgements -- |t Note on Transliteration and the Wylie System -- |t List of Abbreviations -- |t Introduction -- |t Part I Inequalities in Exile -- |t Chapter 1 ‘Because we are Tibetans …’: Talking about Health -- |t Chapter 2 ‘India is the Happiest Place!’: Contextualising Exile -- |t Chapter 3 The Pathogenic Nature of Exile -- |t Chapter 4 From ‘Old-timers’ to ‘Newcomers’: Social Inequalities in the Diaspora -- |t Part II The Role of Traditional Tibetan Medicine -- |t Chapter 5 The Mentsikhang: Construing Traditional Authority -- |t Chapter 6 Humours on Trial: The Mentsikhang’s Dilemmas -- |t Epilogue -- |t Glossary of Tibetan Words with Wylie Spellings -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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