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

Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, Epistemologies of Healing Series, Vol. 2, 2008, 156 pp, $29.95, ISBN 978 1 84545 457 9

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Craig, S.R. Audrey Prost: Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India. Cult Med Psychiatry 33, 643–647 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-009-9152-4

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