Three Fruits
Nepali Ayurvedic Doctors on Health, Nature, and Social Change
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9423-3 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9423-3 (ISBN)
Three Fruits: Nepali Ayurvedic Doctors on Health, Nature, and Social Change focuses on Ayurvedic doctors during a period of social and political change in Nepal. Using doctors’ narratives this study describes the unique human-nature relationship found in Ayurvedic practice and highlights Ayurveda’s relevance in Nepal and the world.
In 1978 Mary Cameron first encountered a medical practice in remote western Nepal that used pulse reading for diagnosis and local plants for medicine. Cameron’s study of Ayurvedic medical doctors that began two decades later, Three Fruits traces the conceptual and practice lines from those village healers to the professionally trained doctors in the Kathmandu Valley. An intimate portrayal of Ayurvedic doctors in Nepal during a period of political unrest and social change, Three Fruits connects the doctors’ care for Nepal’s valued medicinal plants to the boundless joy of health they desire for their patients. Combining ethnography with history and Indian philosophy, the detailed study weaves the elegant theory of tridosa (three humors) and the popular medicine trifala (three fruits) into the narrative accounts of doctors’ multi-sited practice. Aware of rising global alternative medicine and environmental movements, the doctors speak to their relevance for Ayurveda and sustainable, integrated, and culturally meaningful plural medicine in Nepal.
In 1978 Mary Cameron first encountered a medical practice in remote western Nepal that used pulse reading for diagnosis and local plants for medicine. Cameron’s study of Ayurvedic medical doctors that began two decades later, Three Fruits traces the conceptual and practice lines from those village healers to the professionally trained doctors in the Kathmandu Valley. An intimate portrayal of Ayurvedic doctors in Nepal during a period of political unrest and social change, Three Fruits connects the doctors’ care for Nepal’s valued medicinal plants to the boundless joy of health they desire for their patients. Combining ethnography with history and Indian philosophy, the detailed study weaves the elegant theory of tridosa (three humors) and the popular medicine trifala (three fruits) into the narrative accounts of doctors’ multi-sited practice. Aware of rising global alternative medicine and environmental movements, the doctors speak to their relevance for Ayurveda and sustainable, integrated, and culturally meaningful plural medicine in Nepal.
Mary M. Cameron is professor of anthropology at Florida Atlantic University.
Chapter 1: Within the Field: History, Practitioners, and Frameworks
Chapter 2: Dr. Narendra Nath Tiwari, Teacher and Botanist
Chapter 3: Dr. Rishi Ram Koirala, Healer
Chapter 4: Developing Ayurveda
Chapter 5: Dr. Lokendra Man Singh, Surgeon and Visionary Educator
Chapter 6: Gender, Culture, Science, and Ayurvedic Medicine: Five Women Doctors
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 161 x 231 mm |
Gewicht | 576 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9423-9 / 1498594239 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9423-3 / 9781498594233 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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