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A Concise Introduction to Indian Medicine:
English
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About the Book
This is an ideal and brilliant book for readers wanting to know more about the Ayurveda and the other system of traditional medicine in India. The book sets Indian medicine firmly in its historical context, and provides a reliable and unbiased survey. Topics covered the origin and development of Indian medicine, its place in modern India and the world, and the theoretical and practical as-pacts of actual medical diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Mazars' book takes account of the best of contemporary scholarship, and presents the results in a concise and easily under-stood format.
About the Author
Dr. GUY MAZARS, the former Secretary-General of the European Centre of the History of Medicine, is Head of the Group for research in ethno medicine at the University of Strasbourg (France), and is President of the European Society of Ethnopharmacology. The author received his Ph. D. in Indian Civilization from the University of Strasbourg in 1976. A pupil of the French ideologist Jean Filliozat (1906-1982), he has been studying Indian Traditional Medicine and Pharmacopoeia for over 25 years and has published numerous papers on the history of Ayurveda and the study of Indian medicinal plants.
Foreword
Guy Mazars' introduction to traditional Indian medicine has been available to the French-reading public for ten years.' It is a small masterpiece of clarity, presenting in a few pages a great deal of accurate and historically-informed information about the healing traditions of India, and especially Ayurveda.
During the twentieth century, much debate took place concerning the appropriate way to modernize Ayurveda within India.' How Ayurveda could be practiced most appropriately in modern India, what should be its relationship
127
About the Book
This is an ideal and brilliant book for readers wanting to know more about the Ayurveda and the other system of traditional medicine in India. The book sets Indian medicine firmly in its historical context, and provides a reliable and unbiased survey. Topics covered the origin and development of Indian medicine, its place in modern India and the world, and the theoretical and practical as-pacts of actual medical diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Mazars' book takes account of the best of contemporary scholarship, and presents the results in a concise and easily under-stood format.
About the Author
Dr. GUY MAZARS, the former Secretary-General of the European Centre of the History of Medicine, is Head of the Group for research in ethno medicine at the University of Strasbourg (France), and is President of the European Society of Ethnopharmacology. The author received his Ph. D. in Indian Civilization from the University of Strasbourg in 1976. A pupil of the French ideologist Jean Filliozat (1906-1982), he has been studying Indian Traditional Medicine and Pharmacopoeia for over 25 years and has published numerous papers on the history of Ayurveda and the study of Indian medicinal plants.
Foreword
Guy Mazars' introduction to traditional Indian medicine has been available to the French-reading public for ten years.' It is a small masterpiece of clarity, presenting in a few pages a great deal of accurate and historically-informed information about the healing traditions of India, and especially Ayurveda.
During the twentieth century, much debate took place concerning the appropriate way to modernize Ayurveda within India.' How Ayurveda could be practiced most appropriately in modern India, what should be its relationship
142 pages, Hardcover
Published April 1, 2006
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