Indudharan Menon, "Hereditary Physicians of Kerala: Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India"
English | ISBN: 113861730X | 2018 | 238 pages | EPUB | 797 KB
This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners, it focuses on Kerala's heterogeneous medical traditions and presents them against the backdrop of the geographical, historical, sociocultural, ethnographic and regional contexts in which they developed and transformed.