Book
Modern and global Ayurveda: pluralism and paradigms
State University of New York Press
2008
Abstract
Includes bibliographical references and index. || Plural medicine and East-West dialogue / Mike Saks -- The evolution of Indian government policy on Ayurveda in the twentieth century / Dominik Wujastyk -- Divorcing Ayurveda: Siddha medicine and the quest for uniqueness / Richard S. Weiss -- Ayurveda and the making of the urban middle class in north India, 1900-1945 / Rachel Berger -- The ayurvedic diaspora: a personal account / Robert E. Svoboda -- An overview of the education and practice of global Ayurveda / Claudia Welch -- Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia databases in the context of the revitalization of traditional medicine / Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana -- The woes of ojas in the modern world / G. Jan Meulenbeld -- Ayurveda and sexuality: sex therapy and the "paradox of virility" / Joseph S. Alter -- Ayurveda in modern India: standardization and pharmaceuticalization / Madhulika Banerjee -- Practicing Ayurveda in the United Kingdom: a time of challenges and opportunities / Sebastian Pole -- Cultural loss and remembrance in contemporary ayurvedic medical practice / Manasi Tirodkar -- Practicing Ayurveda in the western world: a case study from Germany / Ananda Samir Chopra -- Ayurvedic medicine in Britain and the epistemology of practicing medicine in "good faith" / Suzanne Newcombe -- Maharishi ayur-ved: a controversial model of global Ayurveda / Françoise Jeannotat -- Maharishi ayur-veda: "perfect health" through enlightened marketing in America / Cynthia Ann Humes.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Modern and global Ayurveda: pluralism and paradigms
- Contributors
- Dagmar Wujastyk (Editor)Frederick M Smith (Editor) - University of Iowa, Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0791474909; 0791474895; 9780791474891; 9780791474907
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press; Albany
- Number of pages
- xiii, 349 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures; International Programs; Religious Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9983949691902771
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