Sources of illness and healing in South Asian regional literatures
By: edited by Beatrix Pfleiderer and Günther D. Sontheimer.
Contributors: Pfleiderer, Beatrix.; Sontheimer, Günther-Dietz.
Series: South Asian digest of regional writing ;; vol. 8 (1979); South Asian digest of regional writing ;; v. 8.
Publisher: South Asia Institute, Dept. of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health-Dept. of Indology, Heidelberg University
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Medicine, Oriental -- Congresses.; Medical anthropology -- Asia -- Congresses.; Medicine, Oriental -- History -- Sources -- Congresses.; Medical anthropology -- Asia -- History -- Sources -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Beatrix Pfleiderer; title: The ideological basis of the Siddha search for immortality / Kamil V. Zvelebil; title: Remarks on the conception of the body in Ayurvedic medicine / Francis Zimmermann; title: The Chinese reception of Indian medicine in the first millennium A.D. / Paul U. Unschuld; title: Psychotherapeutical aspects of folk medicine in Indonesia (oracles, dissociative states, brotherhoods) / Wolfgang M. Pfeiffer; title: Illness and popular Islam / Kerrin Gräfin Schwerin; title: Mira Datar Dargah : the psychiatry of a Muslim shrine / Beatrix Pfleiderer; title: Jāgar, therapeutic vigil in Kumāũ̄ / Beatrix Pfleiderer and Lothar Lutze.