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Hereditary Physicians of Kerala - Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,378
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Hereditary Physicians of Kerala - Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India (Paperback): Indudharan Menon

Hereditary Physicians of Kerala - Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India (Paperback)

Indudharan Menon

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This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners, it focuses on Kerala's heterogeneous medical traditions and presents them against the backdrop of the geographical, historical, sociocultural, ethnographic and regional contexts in which they developed and transformed. The author explores the world of Kerala's last traditionally trained hereditary practitioners (folk healers, poison therapists, Sanskrit-speaking Muslim Ayurvedic practitioners and the legendary Brahman Ashtavaidyan physicians). He discusses the views of these physicians regarding the marked difference between their personalised ancestral methods of treatment and the standardised version of Ayurveda compliant with biomedicine that is practised by doctors today. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book will be useful to researchers and scholars of medical anthropology, health and social medicine, sociology and social anthropology, the history of science and modern Indian history, as well as to medical practitioners interested in alternative and traditional medicine.

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Imprint: Routledge India
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2020
First published: 2019
Authors: Indudharan Menon
Dimensions: 216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-73211-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > Traditional medicine & remedies > Ayurveda
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
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LSN: 0-367-73211-4
Barcode: 9780367732110

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