List of Abbreviations
List of Tables, Images and Appendices
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Arima Mishra
PART I LEGITIMACY AND RECOGNITION
Chapter 1 - Authenticity, Alliances and Results: Notions of Legitimacy held by Traditional Healers in South India
Devaki Nambiar, Arima Mishra, Harilal Madhavan, Sarika Kadam, Shrish N. R., Steffy Dhayalan and Pooja Venkatesh
Chapter 2 - Accreditation, Certification and Self-regulation: An Innovative Approach for Strengthening and Reintegrating Traditional Community Health Care Providers
Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, Hariramamurthi Govindaswamy, Sarin Sasikumar and Debjani Roy
Chapter 3 - Whom do the Rural Poor Consult for Health Care and How Much Do They Spend in India’s Pluralistic Health Care Arenas?
Mark Nichter
Chapter 4 - Medical Pluralism and the Political Economy of Obstetric Care among Bangladeshi Women in Britain
Sultana Mustafa Khanum
PART II DOCUMENTATION AND SYSTEMATISATION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE
Chapter 5 - From Siddha Corpus to Siddha Medicine: Reflection on the Reduction of Siddha Knowledge through Exploration of Manuscripts
Brigitte Sebastia
Chapter 6 - Family Repositories to ‘Knowledge Commons’: The Discourse of Documenting Local Health Traditions in Contemporary Kerala
Harilal Madhavan and Praveen Lal
Chapter 7 - Documenting Folk Ayurvedic Knowledge in Uttarakhand: Insights from Critical Medical Anthropology
Moe Nakazora
Chapter 8 - Documentation of Traditional Health Knowledge: To What End?
Arima Mishra and Devaki Nambiar
PART III GENDER IN HEALING
Chapter 9 - Nested Marginalities: Women in Healing in South India
Arima Mishra, Maya Annie Elias, Devaki Nambiar and Rajeev B. R.
Chapter 10 - Ritual Pollution and Women’s Blood: Listening to Dais
Janet Chawla
Chapter 11 - Dais: Transforming the Traditions
Renu Khanna
Chapter 12 - May the Vital Force be With You: An Indian Homeopathic Doctor’s Approach to the Gendered Ills of Our Time
Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
Notes on the Contributors
Index