Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine

The Wellcome Collection


‘Woman Swinging Below an Aubergine Plant’, watercolour with pencil, 19th century (Wellcome Collection)

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

oral traditions
learning teacher - student

3000 years
botany
turmeric


culture, history,
community knowledge, 
traditional medicine


West - contested - East
prices
scope of patents



My sources: November London visit research and FT.com Magazine, 28-29 October 2017, pp.20-22.

Image: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/turmeric-ayurveda-india-health-tradition-healing-a8060476.html