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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prost, Audrey, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2008.
Series:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 2.
Subjects:
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.
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