Dagmar Wujastyk

Well-Mannered Medicine

Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda

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Produktbeschreibung

Dagmar Wujastyk explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda, showing how these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780199859962
• ISBN-10: 0199859965
• Artikelnr.: 34738900

Autorenporträt

PhD in Indology 2010, Bonn University

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The pillars of treatment
2 On becoming a physician
3 On continued learning and interaction with peers
4 To care or not to care
5 The rewards of medical practice
6 Veracity in the doctor-patient relationship
7 Ethical elisions
8 Concluding reflections
Appendices
A Sanskrit text passages: The pillars of treatment
B Sanskrit text passages: On becoming a physician
C Sanskrit text passages: On continued learning and interaction with peers
D Sanskrit text passages: To care or not to care
E Sanskrit text passages: The rewards of medical practice
F Sanskrit text passages: Veracity in the doctor-patient relationship
Notes
Bibliography