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

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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Main Author: Prost, Audrey, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2008.
Series:Epistemologies of healing ; v. 2.
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