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Name: Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9781845454579
ISBN-10: 184545457X
Addition ISBN: 0857450123, 9780857450128
Author(s): Audrey Prost, Publisher: Berghahn Books, Copyright: 2008
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.