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Recipes for Immortality. Healing, Religion, and Community in South India.
Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immorality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of pa...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Religion module. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Autonomy of Tradition: Creating Space for Traditional Medicine; 3. The Miraculous Origins of Siddha Medicine; 4. The Invasion of Utopia: The Corruption of Siddha Medicine by Ayurveda; 5. Reviving the Utopian Character of Siddha Medicine; 6. Secrecy, Hereditary Education, and the Immortality of Siddha Medicine; 7. The Loss and Recovery of Medical Knowledge; 8. Conclusion: The Holy Science of Siddha Medicine; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immorality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of patients. While biomedicine might alleviate a patient's physical distress, siddha doctors offer their clientele much more: affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality. They speak of a golden age of Tamil civilization and of traditio. | ||
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