Moreno-Leguizamon, Carlos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4294-3387 (2005) Dichotomies in western biomedicine and Ayurveda: health-illness and body-mind. Economic and Political Weekly, 40 (30). pp. 3302-3310.

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Abstract

What in the western dichotomy of body-mind is seen as a separation of two aspects that influence each other, in Ayurveda it is seen as a holistic identity that has certain consequences. While biomedicine focuses on the body and illness, it is clear that Ayurveda focuses on the emotional and the person. These body-mind and health-illness dichotomies are vital to understand how a medical system is culturally, historically and politically constructed over time.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ayurveda, biomedicine, illness, medical system
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Health & Social Care
Related URLs:	Publisher Organisation
Last Modified:	20 Mar 2019 12:08
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/4008

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