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Power, Knowledge, Medicine: Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals at Home and in the World / Banerjee, Madhulika
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Power, Knowledge, Medicine: Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals at Home and in the World
Banerjee, Madhulika
 
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  Book ID : 37282
  ISBN-10 : 81-250-3528-1 / 8125035281
  ISBN-13 : 978-81-250-3528-2 / 9788125035282
  Place of Publication : Hyderabad
  Year of Publication : 2009
  Edition : (First Edition)
  Language : English
  xviii, 330p., Tables, Abb., Gloss., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
   
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CONTENTS:-
1. The Archaeology of a Pharmaceutical.
2. Policy and Practice of the Post-colonial State.
3. Response and Resistance from Civil Society.
4. Commercialisation and the Forms of Commodification.
5. Standardisation and the Logic of Pharmaceuticalisation.
6. Globalisation and the Trend Towards Herbalisation.
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If the presence of Ayurveda in modern times invites surprise, its renewed vigour in the age or globalisation gives rise both to romantic celebration and incredulous hostility. This kind of response suggests that our understanding of modern Ayurveda has not kept pace with the growth of the phenomenon itself It is not that Ayurveda has not keen studied, but that much of the wealth of scholarship lies in highly specialised disciplines like Indology, Medical Research, History and Medical Anthropology. The big picture of contemporary Ayurveda eludes this scholarship.

The present book seeks to Oils this gap by drawing insights from all the various disciplines that have analysed different aspects of Ayurveda, yet keeping its principal focus on making sense of some of the big changes that have marked the transformation of Ayurveda in the twentieth century. The author suggests that this transformation cannot be seen as purely cognitive, technological or economic change, for it involves an irreducible political play between regimes of knowledge and exercise of state power.

Tracing the birth of Ayurvedic pharmaceutical in colonial times, this book analyses how the working of post-colonial state, civil society and industry has shaped contemporary Ayurveda. It argues that processes of commercialisation and standardisation have resulted in pharmaceuticalisation of this ancient medical system accounting for both the resilience and shrinkage of Ayurvcda as a medical system. The book would engage not just those interested in the phenomenon of Ayurveda or those involved in health policy hut any social scientist interested in technological choice, knowledge and power or alternative modernity.

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