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Precious Pills

Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India

Audrey Prost

136 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-457-9 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Published (September 2008)

eISBN 978-0-85745-012-8 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781845454579


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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.

Audrey Prost is a lecturer in International Health at University College London.

Subject: Medical AnthropologyRefugee and Migration Studies
Area: Asia


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