Medical Pluralism in Contemporary India

includes index and biblioraphy

K Sujatha and Leena Abraham Knowledge and Society: Ancient Medicine in the Contemporary Set-up Contrasting Approaches to Health and Disease: Ayurveda and Biomedicine Rama Jayasundar Ayurveda in the Twenty-First Century: Logic, Practice and Ethics Maarten Bode . The Patient as Knower: Principle and Practice in Siddha Medicine V. Sujatha Medicine, State and Society AYUSH and Public Health: Democratic Pluralism and the Quality of Health Services Ritu Priya . Tension, Placation, C9mplaint: Unani and Post-Colonial Medical Communalism Neshat Quaiser Away from the State: Initiatives of Practitioners and Protagonists Competing for Medical Space: Traditional Practitioners in the Transmission and Promotion of Siddha Medicine Brigitte Sebastia Medicine as Culture: Indigenous Medicine in Cosmopolitan Mumbai Leena Abraham PART IV Competing Indigenities: Mainstream versus Marginal in Medicine and Healing Strengthening Childbirth Care: Can the Maternity Services Open Up to Indigenous Traditions of Midwifery? Mira Sadgopal Global Standards and Local Medical Worlds: The Case of Childbirth Practices Tulsi Patel Recovering from Psychosocial Traumas: The Place of Dargahs in Maharashtra Bhargavi V. Davar and Madhura Lohokare Medicine, Market and Civil Society Local Health Practitioners in India: Resilience, Revitalisation and Reintegration Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana and G. Hariramamurthi Commercialising Traditional Medicme: Ayurvedic Manufacturing in Kerala M. S. Harilal