Well-Mannered Medicine - Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda

Zusatztext Dagmar Wujastyk's thorough study of medical ethics in classical Ayurvedic texts adds substantially to our knowledge of Ayurveda as a medical system. Ethics here includes the moral attributes required of a physician, personal presentation, medical education, the doctor-patient relationship, medical deception, and much more. In this first rate study, Wujastyk avoids the danger of evaluating Ayurveda from the standpoint of Western medicine. This is required reading for everyone with an interest in Indian medicine or cross-cultural medical history. Informationen zum Autor PhD in Indology 2010, Bonn University Klappentext Dagmar Wujastyk explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda, showing how these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette. Zusammenfassung Dagmar Wujastyk explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda, showing how these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette.

Product details

• Authors: Dagmar Wujastyk, Wujastyk Dagmar
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9780199856268
• ISBN: 978-0-19-985626-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Religionsphilosophie, Hinduismus, Sanskrit, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Alternative & Complementary Medicine, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Asia / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, Medical / Nursing, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, History of Religion, complementary medicine, Asian History, Ayurvedic therapies, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Ayurveda, Ayurveda / Ayurvedic medicine