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Modern and global Ayurveda pluralism and paradigms

Plural medicine and East-West dialogue / Mike Saks -- The evolution of Indian government policy on Ayurveda in the twentieth century / Dominik Wujastyk -- Divorcing Ayurveda: Siddha medicine and the quest for uniqueness / Richard Weiss -- Ayurveda and the making of the urban middle class in north India, 1900-1945 / Rachel Berger -- The ayurvedic diaspora: a personal account / Robert E. Svoboda -- An overview of the education and practice of global Ayurveda / Claudia Welch -- Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia databases in the context of the revitalization of traditional medicine / P.M. Unnikrishnan -- The woes of ojas in the modern world / G. Jan Meulenbeld -- Ayurveda and sexuality: sex therapy and the "paradox of virility" / Joseph S. Alter -- Ayurveda in modern India: standardization and pharmaceuticalization / Madhulika Banerjee -- Practicing Ayurveda in the UK: a time of challenges and opportunities / Sebastian Pole -- Cultural loss and remembrance in contemporary ayurvedic medical practice / Manasi Tirodkar -- Practicing Ayurveda in the western world: a case study from Germany / Ananda Samir Chopra -- Ayurvedic medicine in Britain and the epistemology of practicing medicine in "good faith" / Suzanne Newcombe -- Maharishi ayur-ved: a controversial model of global Ayurveda / Françoise Jeannotat -- Maharishi ayur-veda: "perfect health" through enlightened marketing in America / Cynthia Ann Humes
Print Book, English, 2008
State Univ. of New York Press, Albany, 2008