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Author Prost, Audrey, 1977- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwkqBv8k3M7GQFQw9Yc6C

Title Precious pills : medicine and social change among Tibetan refugees in India / Audrey Prost.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, ©2008.

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Description 1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations.
Series Epistemologies of healing ; v. 2.
Epistemologies of healing ; v. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index.
Contents Title page-Precious pills; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on transliteration and the wylie system; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I-Inequalities in Exile; Ch 1-'Because we are Tibetans ... '; Ch 2-'India is the happiest place!'; Ch 3-The pathogenic nature of exile; Ch 4-From 'old-timers' to 'newcomers'; Part II-The role of traditional Tibetan medicine; Ch 5-The mentsikhang; Ch 6-Humors on trial; Epilogue; Glossary of Tibetan words with wylie spellings; Bibliography; Index.
Summary When people are displaced, their social systems move with them. This book investigates what happens to traditional medical systems when they are "uprooted", i.e. when practitioners and patients become displaced, by looking at the transformations of traditional Tibetan medicine among the Tibetan refugee community in India. It addresses how long-term displacement affects concepts of health and examines the success and efficacy of Tibetan medicine in the context of social upheaval.
Language English.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Medical anthropology -- India.
Medical anthropology -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Traditional medicine -- India.
Traditional medicine -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tibetans -- Medicine -- India.
Tibetans -- India -- Social conditions.
Refugees -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Refugees -- India.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Medicine, Tibetan
Medical anthropology
Refugees
Tibetans -- Social conditions
Traditional medicine
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
India https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdx47cDXrRhBXHtbvPwC
Other Form: Print version: Prost, Audrey, 1977- Precious pills. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2008 (DLC) 2008014702
ISBN 9780857450128
0857450123
9781845454579 (alk. paper)
184545457X (alk. paper)
1282626647
9781282626645
9786612626647
661262664X