Precious pills : medicine and social change among Tibetan refugees in India / / Audrey Prost
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| Autore: |
Prost Audrey <1977->
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| Titolo: |
Precious pills : medicine and social change among Tibetan refugees in India / / Audrey Prost
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/610954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medical anthropology - India |
| Medical anthropology - China - Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Traditional medicine - India | |
| Medicine, Chinese - China - Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Tibetans - Medicine - India | |
| Tibetans - India - Social conditions | |
| Refugees - China - Tibet Autonomous Region | |
| Refugees - India | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Precious pills |
| ISBN: | 1-282-62664-7 |
| 9786612626647 | |
| 0-85745-012-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811429703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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