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 amo…
"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 t…
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 a…