R. Berger

Ayurveda Made Modern

Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-28455-5
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780230284555
• ISBN-10: 0230284558
• Artikelnr.: 38077054

Autorenporträt

Rachel Berger is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian History at Concordia University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Ayurveda in Motion 1. Historicising Ayurveda: Genealogies of the Biomoral 2. Situating Ayurveda in Modernity, 1900-1919 3. Embodying Consumption: Representing Indigeneity in Popular Culture, 1910-1940 4. Ayurveda's Dyarchic Moment, 1920-1935 5. Planning through Development: Institutions, Population, and the Limits of Belonging 6. Reframing Indigeneity: Ayurveda, Independence and the Health of the Future Conclusion: Ayurveda's Indian Modernities Bibliography