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“ms valiathan”

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  • Ayurvedic Inheritance

    A Reader's Companion

    by M S Valiathan ...
    This book is a companion to Āyurvedic studies. It discusses the history and evolution of Ayurveda, its philosophy, and its practical uses in everyday life—from medicine to mental wellbeing.It harks back to the traditional Indian concept of four aspects of lifelong learning. These were instruction by the teacher, individual effort, learning from companions and lastly, wisdom gathered over a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Legacy of Vagbhata

    by M.S. Valiathan ...
    Vagbhata completes the “Great Three” (Brhatrayi) of Ayurveda, with his predecessors, Caraka and Susruta. His identity and period are controversial but a major section of the scholarly community believes that he was a native of Sindh, who lived in the sixth century and write Astangahrdayam and Astangasngraha. The two texts frankly acknowledge the authority of Samhitas of Caraka and Susruta and ... Read more

    $51.50 USD

  • The Legacy of Caraka

    by M.S. Valiathan ...
    Caraka, the master physician, is believed to have lived in the first century AD. The Samhita composed by him forms the bedrock of ayurvedic practice today. His contribution to India’s cultural inheritance was profound. Caraka Samhita was, in fact, a revision of an older text Agnivesa Tantra, which was written several centuries before Caraka’s time. Caraka’s revision became so popular that it was ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

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  • Bergen-belsen 1945: A Medical Student's Journal

    by David Bowen Hargrave ...
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  • The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank

    Inside Psychoanalysis

    Edited by E. James Lieberman, MD, Robert Kramer, PhD ...
    Sigmund Freud’s relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud’s publishing house; and after several years helping Freud update his masterpiece, The Interpretation of ... Read more

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  • Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)

    A History of Women Healers

    by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ...
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  • The Origins of AIDS

    by Jacques Pepin ...
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  • A Short History of Medicine

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    Series Book 28 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, González-Crussi also describes how modern medicine’s roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and ... Read more

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  • William Osler: A Life in Medicine

    A Life in Medicine

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  • Bad Medicine

    Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates

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    Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. In this fascinating new look at the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that for more than 2300 years doctors ... Read more

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