Ayurveda A Traditional System of Medicine in India

In a global environment of enormous health challenges medical anthropologists offer a significant and insightful understanding of traditional health system and healing practices around the world .The authors critically examine the major issues and themes and their attendant controversies in the pursuit of medical anthropology today. Also presented in this book is a thorough assessment of a specific area of study in medical anthropology-the traditional and indigenous system of medicine in North India.