Precious pills: Medicine and social change among Tibetan refugees in India

Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-156

  Prost, Audrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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