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.
- ISBN10 1282626647
- ISBN13 9781282626645
- Publish Date 1 January 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berghahn Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 192
- Language English