Ayurveda Made Modern: Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955

by Rachel Berger

This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230284558
• ISBN13: 9780230284555
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"