List of Tables and Figures
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
V. Sujatha and Leena Abraham
PART I
Knowledge and Society: Ancient Medicine in the Contemporary Set-up
1. Contrasting Approaches to Health and Disease: Ayurveda and Biomedicine
Rama Jayasundar
2. Ayurveda in the Twenty-First Century: Logic, Practice and Ethics
Maarten Bode
3. The Patient as Knower: Principle and Practice in Siddha Medicine
V. Sujatha
PART II
Medicine, State and Society
4. AYUSH and Public Health: Democratic Pluralism and the Quality of Health Services
Ritu Priya
5. Tension, Placation, Complaint: Unani and Post-Colonial Medical Communalism
Neshat Quaiser
PART III
Away from the State: Initiatives of Practitioners and Protagonists
6. Competing for Medical Space: Traditional Practitioners in the Transmission and Promotion of Siddha Medicine
Brigitte Sébastia
7. Medicine as Culture: Indigenous Medicine in Cosmopolitan Mumbai
Leena Abraham
PART IV
Competing Indigenities: Mainstream versus Marginal in Medicine and Healing
8. Strengthening Childbirth Care: Can the Maternity Services Open Up to Indigenous Traditions of Midwifery?
Mira Sadgopal
9. Global Standards and Local Medical Worlds: The Case of Childbirth Practices
Tulsi Patel
10. Recovering from Psychosocial Traumas: The Place of Dargahs in Maharashtra
Bhargavi V. Davar and Madhura Lohokare
11. Local Health Practitioners in India: Resilience, Revitalisation and Reintegration
Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana and G. Hariramamurthi
12. Commercialising Traditional Medicine: Ayurvedic Manufacturing in Kerala
M. S. Harilal
Glossary
References
List of Contributors
Index