Precious Pills, Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India, by Audrey Prost

Contents

Table of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on transliteration and the Wylie system
List of abbreviations used

Introduction

PART I: INEQUALITIES IN EXILE

Chapter 1. "Because we are Tibetans": Talking about health
Chapter 2. "India is the happiest place!" Contextualising Exile
Chapter 3. "If this place doesn’t agree with you, wounds and diseases will come"
Chapter 4. From "old-timers" to "newcomers": inequalities in the Diaspora

PART II: THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL TIBETAN MEDICINE

Chapter 5. The Mentsikhang: Construing Authority
Chapter 6. Humours on trial: the Mentsikhang’s dilemmas

Conclusion

Notes
Glossary
References
Index