Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda
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1st. ed.
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9780199856268
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vi+238p., 24cm.
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Well-Mannered Medicine explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical ayurvedic treatises were composed in Sanskrit between the first and the seventh centuries CE, and later works, dating into the sixteenth century CE, are still considered strongly authoritative. As Wujastyk shows, these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette. Physicians looked to the ayurvedic treatises ...
