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Well-Mannered Medicine - Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda (Hardcover, New)
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Well-Mannered Medicine - Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda (Hardcover, New)
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Dagmar Wujastyk explores the moral discourses on the practice of
medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical
ayurvedic treatises were composed in Sanskrit between the first and
the fifth centuries CE, and the later works, dating into the
sixteenth century CE, were still considered strongly authoritative.
As Wujastyk shows, these works testify to an elaborate system of
medical ethics and etiquette. Physicians looked to the ayurvedic
treatises for a guide to professional conduct. Ayurvedic discourses
on good medical practice depict the physician as highly-educated,
skilled, moral, and well-mannered. The rules of conduct positioned
physicians within mainstream society's and characterized medical
practice as a trustworthy and socially acceptable profession. At
the same time, professional success was largely based on a
particular physician's ability to cure his patients. This resulted
in tension, as some treatments and medications were considered
socially or religiously unacceptable. Doctors needed to treat their
patients successfully while ostensibly following the rules of
acceptable behavior. Wujastyk offers insight into the many
unorthodox methods of avoiding conflict while ensuring patient
compliance shown in the ayurvedic treatises, giving a disarmingly
candid perspective on the realities of medical practice and its
crucial role in a profoundly well-mannered society.
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