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Precious Pills

- Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India

About Precious Pills

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?

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781845454579
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 136
  • Published:
  • August 31, 2008
  • Dimensions:
  • 224x149x16 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 312 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 19, 2024

Description of Precious Pills

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?

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