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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. pp. xvi + 254, Maps, Index 2nd Edition. Codice articolo 2663917
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. pp. xvi + 254 Illus., Maps. Codice articolo 7816818
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. 2nd Edition. The theory of humors vital fluids whose proportions in the human body determine its health and temperament is far from outdated And what we sometimes think of as a modern concern with ecology and alternative medicine is really as old as the traditional medical techniques of the classical West of South Asia It is to the latter that Francis Zimmermann turns his attention in a remarkable evocation that combines Sanskrit studies and anthropology He reconstructs and exposes the linkage between humors persons and soils in classical Hindu medicine His work will interested those involved in the areas of medical anthropology medical anthropology medical history philosophy of science philosophy of language and South Asian studies It will also be valued for the vivid and accurate descriptions it offers of a few basic ideas our time has borrowed from Hindu culture flower power vegetarianism non-violence and the comic dimensions of the human body In classical Ayurvedic medicine a comprehensive view of the whole human person included the patients humoral integration into the surrounding soil The Jungle was the most crucial environment and the Jungle was - and is - the dry land of the Punjab and the Delhi Doab an open vegetation of thorny shrubs The polarity of dry lands and wet lands framed not only the whole Ayurvedic materia medica but also the more general conception of a comic physiology governed by Agni the sun and Soma the dispenser of rain Clearing the land and draining the body were two aspects of one and the same art of managing the transactions of all sorts of vital fluids saps juices savors and humor Medicine in the context of thought and practice associated with the Jungle was and still in modern India a kind of agriculture 254 pp. Codice articolo 95673
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