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Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in IndiaEpistemologies of Healing, Band 2 1. Aufl.
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38,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Berghahn Books |
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| Veröffentl.: | 01.09.2008 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780857450128 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 136 |
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<p> 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? It explores how social changes linked to exile have influenced concepts of health and illness in the Tibetan refugee community of Dharamsala and by looking at recent changes in the theory and practice of traditional Tibetan medicine investigates the role of traditional Tibetan medicine in sustaining public health in the exile community.</p>
<p> Table of Illustrations<br> List of Tables<br> Acknowledgements<br> Note on transliteration and the Wylie system<br> List of abbreviations used</p>
<p> <b>Introduction</b></p>
<p> <b>PART I: INEQUALITIES IN EXILE</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 1.</b> "Because we are Tibetans": Talking about health<br> <b>Chapter 2.</b> "India is the happiest place!" Contextualising Exile<br> <b>Chapter 3.</b> "If this place doesn’t agree with you, wounds and diseases will come"<br> <b>Chapter 4.</b> From "old-timers" to "newcomers": inequalities in the Diaspora</p>
<p> <b>PART II: THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL TIBETAN MEDICINE</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 5.</b> The Mentsikhang: Construing Authority<br> <b>Chapter 6.</b> Humours on trial: the Mentsikhang’s dilemmas</p>
<p> <b>Conclusion</b></p>
<p> Notes<br> Glossary<br> References<br> Index</p>
<p> <b>Introduction</b></p>
<p> <b>PART I: INEQUALITIES IN EXILE</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 1.</b> "Because we are Tibetans": Talking about health<br> <b>Chapter 2.</b> "India is the happiest place!" Contextualising Exile<br> <b>Chapter 3.</b> "If this place doesn’t agree with you, wounds and diseases will come"<br> <b>Chapter 4.</b> From "old-timers" to "newcomers": inequalities in the Diaspora</p>
<p> <b>PART II: THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL TIBETAN MEDICINE</b></p>
<p> <b>Chapter 5.</b> The Mentsikhang: Construing Authority<br> <b>Chapter 6.</b> Humours on trial: the Mentsikhang’s dilemmas</p>
<p> <b>Conclusion</b></p>
<p> Notes<br> Glossary<br> References<br> Index</p>
<p> <b>Audrey Prost</b> is a lecturer in International Health at University College London.</p>
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