Precious Pills by Audrey Prost
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?-
Ritual Retellings
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Capturing Quicksilver
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Chinese Medicine in East Africa
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The Land Is Dying
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Medicine Between Science and Religion
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Breathing Hearts
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The Healing Machi
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Healing Roots
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Morality, Hope and Grief
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Moral Power
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Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland
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Fortune and the Cursed
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Dances with Spiders
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The Body in Balance
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Plants, Health and Healing
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Conjuring Hope
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Configuring Contagion
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Fragile Futures
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Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
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Working with Spirit
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Asymmetrical Conversations
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Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine
Audrey Prost is a lecturer in International Health at University College London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781845454579 |
| ISBN 10 | 184545457X |
| Title | Precious Pills |
| Author | Audrey Prost |
| Series | Epistemologies Of Healing |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2008-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 136 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |