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Book Chapters (History and Classics)
Items in this Collection
- 1Classical Indian Medicine
- 1Dictionary
- 1Hindu Science
- 1History Of Medicine
- 1India -- History -- By Period -- Recent (1947- )
- 1India -- Politics & Government -- Legislature
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1982
Introduction: The most spectacularly successful of the sciences in Ancient and Mediaeval India was linguistics (Sanskrit, vyakarana, 'analysis' or 'veriformation'). Linguistics acted as a paradigm for the methodology and style of expression of other disciplines, especially in such fields as logic...
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2008
The attempts by the British and Indian governments to regulate medical practice in India generated an outpouring of numerous, long and scattered documents. In order to be able to grasp the outlines of these processes of attempted control, I offer here a framework for understanding this landslide...
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2003
Introduction: Indian medicine, as a systematic and scholarly tradition, begins historically with the appearance of the great medical encyclopedias of Caraka, Su ́sruta and Bhela about two thousand years ago.1 These are the oldest Indian medical texts we have, and also the most influential. Just...