Recipes for Immortality: Healing, Religion, and Community in South India
In India today, the sick can choose from a range of medical options, including Western biomedicine, homeopathy, Sanskritic ayurveda, Tamil siddha, Islamic unani, and Gandhian nature cure, among others. This variety might seem surprising, given the rapid globalization of the medicines, institutions, and explanatory apparatus of Western medicine. While penicillin cures many ailments, however, the complexities of human health and medical experience leave much to chance,to cultural interpretations of healing, and to the imagination. Traditional doctors continue to thrive in the modern world, says Richard Weiss, because they employ imaginative res…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-533523-1
- EAN: 9780195335231
- Produktnummer: 22671626
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 522 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 522
Über den Autor
Richard Weiss is Senior Lecturer of South Asian Religions, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. He was trained as a teacher in the Peace Corps in Swaziland, Southern Africa, and as a scholar at the University of Chicago. His research interests and publications focus on Tamil religion and culture from the twelfth century to the present. He is currently working on a history of Shaiva community in South India and Sri Lanka.
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