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Recipes for Immortality: Healing, Religion, and Community in South India

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 | #2291570 in Books |  Richard S Weiss |  2009-02-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x.90 x9.20l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

 | Recipes for Immortality Healing Religion and Community in South India

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Healing, Culture & Nationhood in Tamil society: A Book About the Siddha Medicine of Tamil Nadu|By William Courson|Richard S. Weiss is a Senior Lecturer in South Asian religions at Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand). In his "Recipes for Immortality," Weiss illuminates the continuing success of traditional healers in the face of Western medicine's global spread by exa| ||"This book is a skillful study of Siddha medicine, the least understood of the medical 'systems' of India. Richard Weiss writes with great craft and strategy about traditions competing for medical authority in postmodernity, and very capably explores the ten

Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of patients. While biomedicine might alleviate a patient's physical distress, siddha doctors offer their clientele much more: affiliation to a timeless and pure communi...

You easily download any file type for your device.Recipes for Immortality: Healing, Religion, and Community in South India   |  Richard S Weiss.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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