Modern and global Ayurveda
Subtitle: pluralism and paradigms
By: edited by Dagmar Wujastyk and Frederick M. Smith.
Contributors: Wujastyk, Dagmar; Smith, Frederick M.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780791474891; 9780791474907
Subjects: Medicine, Ayurvedic; Medicine, Ayurvedic -- History; Medicine, Ayurvedic -- Europe; Medicine, Ayurvedic -- India; Medicine, Ayurvedic -- United States; History, 20th Century -- Europe; History, 20th Century -- India; History, 20th Century -- United States; Medicine, Ayurvedic -- history -- Europe; Medicine, Ayurvedic -- history -- India; Medicine, Ayurvedic -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plural medicine and East-West dialogue / Mike Saks; title: The evolution of Indian government policy on Ayurveda in the twentieth century / Dominik Wujastyk; title: Divorcing Ayurveda: Siddha medicine and the quest for uniqueness / Richard S. Weiss; title: Ayurveda and the making of the urban middle class in north India, 1900-1945 / Rachel Berger; title: The ayurvedic diaspora: a personal account / Robert E. Svoboda; title: An overview of the education and practice of global Ayurveda / Claudia Welch; title: Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia databases in the context of the revitalization of traditional medicine / Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana; title: The woes of ojas in the modern world / G. Jan Meulenbeld; title: Ayurveda and sexuality: sex therapy and the "paradox of virility" / Joseph S. Alter; title: Ayurveda in modern India: standardization and pharmaceuticalization / Madhulika Banerjee; title: Practicing Ayurveda in the United Kingdom: a time of challenges and opportunities / Sebastian Pole; title: Cultural loss and remembrance in contemporary ayurvedic medical practice / Manasi Tirodkar; title: Practicing Ayurveda in the western world: a case study from Germany / Ananda Samir Chopra; title: Ayurvedic medicine in Britain and the epistemology of practicing medicine in "good faith" / Suzanne Newcombe; title: Maharishi ayur-ved: a controversial model of global Ayurveda / Françoise Jeannotat; title: Maharishi ayur-veda: "perfect health" through enlightened marketing in America / Cynthia Ann Humes.