Medical Anthropology of the JaunsarisOf the nine chapters in the book the one on local systems of medicine is particularly interesting. This chapter is very rich in the empirical facts and it details ailment, vernacular name of medicine, botanical name, its availability and use have been depicted in a scientific way. The book on the whole is an important addition to the Medical Anthropology in general and Applied and Action Anthropology in particular. |
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Contents
Environmental Sanitation and Sanitary Habits | 24 |
Nutrition | 41 |
Drinking and Smoking | 55 |
Local Systems of Medicine | 72 |
Family Size and Fertility Pattern | 86 |
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Adrak affected ailments Ajowan alcoholic animals Bajgis Banafshah believe Black pepper body Brahman bread castes cattle causes cent cereals Chakrata chaval child cleaning the teeth clothes cultural cured dankan Dehradun Dehradun District diet drinking drugs evil-eye evil-spirit factors females fertility flour Foster and Anderson ghee Ginger goat goddess Grewia oppositifolia ground floor Grown habit Hasan health and disease Hedychium spicatum households housing pattern hygiene illness India indigenous medicine jaggery Jaunsar Bawar Jaunsari villages juice Kachoor Khat kitchen Koltas liquor living magic Manduva meals Meat medical anthropology Milk mother mountains Nilkanthi nutrition patient person physical Polyandrous population potion powdered prepared problems public health Pulses Pyaz Rajput responsible rice River River Tons Roti sattu sheep smoke social spirit store room Sugar supernatural take bath Timoor tribal Uttar Pradesh vegetables vitamin washing women Zanthoxylum alatum Zira
Bibliographic information
| Title | Medical Anthropology of the Jaunsaris |
| Author | S. N. H. Rizvi |
| Publisher | Northern Book Centre, 1991 |
| ISBN | 817211012X, 9788172110123 |
| Length | 162 pages |
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