Precious pills : medicine and social change among Tibetan refugees in India /

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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 Ti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prost, Audrey, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2008.
Colección:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 2.
Temas:
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.
Tibétains > Médecine > Inde.
Tibétains > Inde > Conditions sociales.
Réfugiés > Chine > Région autonome du Tibet.
Réfugiés > Inde.
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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