Indudharan Menon

Gebundenes Buch

Hereditary Physicians of Kerala

Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India

Beschreibung

This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. It focuses on Kerala's hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners and discusses relevant geographical, historical, socio-cultural and regional contexts.

Autor

Indudharan Menon is Visiting Scholar at the Science and Society Programme, National Centre for Biological Sciences (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), Bengaluru, India. As an Indologist who has studied and extensively researched traditional Indian medicine, sciences and philosophy, he has also coordinated research projects involving traditional Indian vaidyas, biomedical doctors and ethnobotanists. His publications include the book The Concealed Essence of the Hevajra Tantra (1992) and papers in the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (2010) and Current Science (2014).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138617308
• ISBN-10: 113861730X
• Artikelnr.: 54908224