Richard S Weiss

Recipes for Immortality (eBook, ePUB)

Healing, Religion, and Community in South India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Weiss seeks to illuminate the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha practitioners in Tamil South India have won the trust and patronage of patients. They do this, he shows, by offering affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190450519
• Artikelnr.: 42635966

Autorenporträt

Richard S. Weiss is Senior Lecturer of South Asian Religions at Victoria University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: INTRODUCTION
* 2: THE AUTONOMY OF TRADITION: CREATING SPACE FOR TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
* 3: THE MIRACULOUS ORIGINS OF SIDDHA MEDICINE
* 4: THE INVASION OF UTOPIA: THE CORRUPTION OF SIDDHA MEDICINE BY
AYURVEDA
* 5: REVIVING THE UTOPIAN CHARACTER OF SIDDHA MEDICINE
* 6: SECRECY, HEREDITARY EDUCATION, AND THE IMMORTALITY OF SIDDHA
MEDICINE
* 7: THE LOSS AND RECOVERY OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE
* 8: CONCLUSION: THE MYSTERY OF SIDDHA MEDICINE