Precious pills: medicine and social change among tibetan refugees in india
Auteur :
Prost, Audrey
Éditeur :
Berghahn Books
ISBN :
9781845454579
Date de publication :
1 sept. 2008
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Poids :
345 g
Format :
Library binding
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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?