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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Table of Contents:
- 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