TY  - BOOK
AU  - Menon,Indudharan
TI  - Hereditary physicians of Kerala: traditional medicine and ayurveda in modern India 
AV  - GR305.5.K4 
U1  - 615.88095483 MEN 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - India
KW  - Kerala
KW  - Medicine, Ayurvedic
KW  - Healers
KW  - Āyurveda
KW  - Inde
KW  - Guérisseurs
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Pharmacology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Holistic Medicine
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Asia
KW  - India & South Asia
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Kerala (India)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Kerala (Inde)
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners, it focuses on Kerala's heterogeneous medical traditions and presents them against the backdrop of the geographical, historical, sociocultural, ethnographic and regional contexts in which they developed and transformed. The author explores the world of Kerala's last traditionally trained hereditary practitioners (folk healers, poison therapists, Sanskrit-speaking Muslim Ayurvedic practitioners and the legendary Brahman Ashtavaidyan physicians). He discusses the views of these physicians regarding the marked difference between their personalised ancestral methods of treatment and the standardised version of Ayurveda compliant with biomedicine that is practised by doctors today. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book will be useful to researchers and scholars of medical anthropology, health and social medicine, sociology and social anthropology, the history of science and modern Indian history, as well as to medical practitioners interested in alternative and traditional medicine
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022982
ER  -