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Medicine as Culture: Indigenous Medicine in Cosmopolitan Mumbai

Using the framework of medicine as culture and focusing on the indigenous medicine of ayurveda, this paper examines the relationship between health, culture and medicine, and its social reproduction in contemporary India. Specifically it deals with the cultural construct of "Kerala ayurveda&quo...

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Huvudupphovsman: Leena Abraham
Materialtyp: Printed Book
Publicerad: Economic & Political Weekly EPW april 18, 2009 vol xliv no 16 2009
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Länkar:http://10.26.1.76/ks/003764.pdf
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