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

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Berger is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian History at Concordia University, Canada. Klappentext 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. To come Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: R Berger, R. Berger, Rachel Berger
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2013
• EAN: 9780230284555
• ISBN: 978-0-230-28455-5
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series; Cambridge Imperial and Post-Co; Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series; Cambridge Imperial and Post-Co; Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, B, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus, Asiatische Geschichte, Cultural History, History, History: specific events & topics, European History, Westeuropa, Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen, Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Political science & theory, History of Science, Political History, Asian History, World Politics, imperialism, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Asia—History, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie