Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and ParadigmsDagmar Wujastyk, Frederick M. Smith State University of New York Press, 09.09.2013 - 363 Seiten Modern and Global Ayurveda provides an overview of the relatively recent history of Ayurveda in its modern and globalized forms. One of the traditional medical systems originating on the Indian subcontinent, Ayurveda is fast becoming a transnational phenomenon. Contributors to this volume include both scholars and practitioners of Ayurveda. The wide range of perspectives they offer include the philosophical, anthropological, sociopolitical, economic, biomedical, and pharmacological. Issues such as the ideological clashes between "classical" and "modernized" Ayurveda, the "export" of Ayurvedic medical lore to Western countries, and the possible "reimport" of its adapted and reinterpreted contents are covered and prove particularly relevant to contemporary discussion on the integration of complementary and alternative health care. |
Inhalt
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6 The Ayurvedic Diaspora | 117 |
7 An Overview of the Education and Practice of Global Ayurveda | 129 |
8 Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia Databases in the Context of the Revitalization of Traditional Medicine | 139 |
Standardization and Pharmaceuticalization | 201 |
A Time of Challenges and Opportunities | 215 |
13 Cultural Loss and Remembrance in Contemporary Ayurvedic Medical Practice | 227 |
A Case Study from Germany | 243 |
15 Ayurvedic Medicine in Britain and the Epistemology of Practicing Medicine in Good Faith | 257 |
A Controversial Model of Global Ayurveda | 285 |
Perfect Health through Enlightened Marketing in America | 309 |
List of Contributors | 333 |
9 The Woes of Ojas in the Modern World | 157 |
Sex Therapy and the Paradox of Virility | 177 |
Index | 341 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
AIDS alternative American ancient approach Association authors Ayurveda become Bhore biomedicine body called centers century Chopra claim classical clinical colleges Committee concepts considered context continue Council course cultural Delhi discussion disease doctors effects established example experience global groups healing herbal human important Indian Indian Medicine indigenous Institute interest International issues knowledge language literature London Maharishi means medi medical systems movement nature offer ojas organization original particular patients person physical plants political practice practitioners present Press problem professional published reference Report result Sanskrit scientific semen sexual Sharma Siddha medicine society sources specific spiritual standards systems of medicine Tamil teaching texts theory therapy tion traditional Transcendental Meditation treatment trials United University vaidyas Vedic West Western yoga
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 78 - The search for descent is not the erecting of foundations: on the contrary, it disturbs what was previously considered immobile; it fragments what was thought unified; it shows the heterogeneity of what was imagined consistent with itself.
Seite 60 - I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Seite 73 - the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasize certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present
Seite 61 - Published under the direction of the general council of medical education and registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the medical act (1858).
Seite 59 - Fox, it appears that the historian tends in the first place to adopt the whig or Protestant view of the subject, and very quickly busies himself with dividing the world into the friends and enemies of progress.
Seite 74 - Interim report of the Committee appointed by the Government of India to study and report on the question of establishing uniform standards in respect of education and practice of vaidyas, hakims and homoeopaths.
Seite xiii - Office and the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, as well as the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
Seite 78 - If genealogy in its own right gives rise to questions concerning our native land, native language, or the laws that govern us, its intention is to reveal the heterogeneous systems which, masked by the self, inhibit the formation of any form of identity.
Seite 52 - A broad survey of the present position in regard to health conditions and health organisation in...
Seite 114 - Ayurvedic Medicine in Goa According to European Sources in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 58 (1984): 225-35; and A.