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1 online resource (366 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 / Francoise Jeannotat -- Maharishi ayur-veda: "perfect health" through enlightened marketing in America / Cynthia Ann Humes. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
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Medicine, Ayurvedic -- History.
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Electronic books.
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Wujastyk, Dagmar.
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Smith, Frederick M.
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Print version: Modern and global Ayurveda : pluralism and paradigms. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008] xiii, 349 pages ; 24 cm 9780791474891 (OCoLC)171258217 (DLC)10762645 |
| ISBN |
0791474895 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780791474907 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0791474909 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780791474891 |
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9780791478165 (electronic bk.) |
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