Precious Pills Marlene Gebauer

Precious Pills Marlene GebauerThrough 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

how much and for what purposes water is withdrawn or abstracted by farmers

The book sets forth a new view of the nature and origins of the genre

he decides to be put in a hypnotic sleep by his doctor

grouped for visual resonance

social and ideological conditions that produced them

as the number of individuals seeking care continues to grow

and public attitudes

On the right-hand or recto pages appear Sabine Menner-Bettscheid's scholarly responses to Kenney and fictional responses to Susette

as the author discovered

local villagers

Prevention

The open access version of this book has been made available thanks to the generosity of Ryuji Hattori