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Recipes for Immortality: Healing, Religion, and Community in South India Book

Recipes for Immortality : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195335231 : 0195335236 : 19 Feb 2009 : In this book, Weiss seeks to illuminate the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha practitioners in Tamil South India have won the trust and patronage of patients. They do this, he shows, by offering affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard S. Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which Siddha medical...

  • 0195335236
  • 9780195335231
  • Richard S Weiss
  • 19 February 2009
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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