Well-Mannered Medicine

Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda

Szerző: Dagmar Wujastyk

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc

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Dagmar Wujastyk explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts...

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Dagmar Wujastyk

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2012

oldal

264

EAN

9780199859962

ISBN

0199859965

Enbook ID

04536393

Kiadó

Oxford University Press Inc

Súly

400

Méretek

235 x 154 x 18

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Dagmar Wujastyk explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical ayurvedic treatises were composed in Sanskrit between the first and the fifth centuries CE, and the later works, dating into the sixteenth century CE, were still considered strongly authoritative. As Wujastyk shows, these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette. Physicians looked to the ayurvedic treatises for a guide to professional conduct. Ayurvedic discourses on good medical practice depict the physician as highly-educated, skilled, moral, and well-mannered. The rules of conduct positioned physicians within mainstream society's and characterized medical practice as a trustworthy and socially acceptable profession. At the same time, professional success was largely based on a particular physician's ability to cure his patients. This resulted in tension, as some treatments and medications were considered socially or religiously unacceptable. Doctors needed to treat their patients successfully while ostensibly following the rules of acceptable behavior. Wujastyk offers insight into the many unorthodox methods of avoiding conflict while ensuring patient compliance shown in the ayurvedic treatises, giving a disarmingly candid perspective on the realities of medical practice and its crucial role in a profoundly well-mannered society.

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