R. Berger

Broschiertes Buch

Ayurveda Made Modern

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

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-32968-7
• 1st ed. 2013
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781349329687
• ISBN-10: 1349329681
• Artikelnr.: 45070178