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Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry: Mental Health and Healing in a Tibetan Exile Community

10 February 2020

This book presents research based on two six-month periods of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Darjeeling during 2011 and 2012. It utilizes four case studies to illustrate lay perceptions of different mental health conditions and their causes and treatments, juxtaposed with Tibetan textual and biomedical explanations.

 
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