Recipes for Immortality: Healing, Religion, and Community in South India By Richard S Weiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2009-02-19 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0195335236 | PDF | 1.2 MB
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…