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Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India - Epistemologies of Healing Audrey Prost
Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India - Epistemologies of Healing
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?
Illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 1, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9781845454579 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books |
| Pages | 136 |
| Dimensions | 224 × 149 × 16 mm · 312 g |
| Language | English |