Sources of illness and healing in South Asian regional literatures

Author(s)

• Pfleiderer, Beatrix
• Sontheimer, Günther-Dietz

Bibliographic Information

Sources of illness and healing in South Asian regional literatures

edited by Beatrix Pfleiderer and Günther D. Sontheimer

（South Asian digest of regional writing, v. 8）

South Asia Institute, Dept. of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health-Dept. of Indology, Heidelberg University, [c1983]

• pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographies

Contents of Works

• Foreword / Beatrix Pfleiderer
• The ideological basis of the Siddha search for immortality / Kamil V. Zvelebil
• Remarks on the conception of the body in Ayurvedic medicine / Francis Zimmermann
• The Chinese reception of Indian medicine in the first millennium A.D / Paul U. Unschuld
• Psychotherapeutical aspects of folk medicine in Indonesia (oracles, dissociative states, brotherhoods) / Wolfgang M. Pfeiffer
• Illness and popular Islam / Kerrin Gräfin Schwerin
• Mira Datar Dargah : the psychiatry of a Muslim shrine / Beatrix Pfleiderer
• Jāgar, therapeutic vigil in Kumāū̃ / Beatrix Pfleiderer and Lothar Lutze

• NCID: BA50625354
• ISBN:
  • 3515039406
• LCCN: 86154252
• Country Code: gw
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 120 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R581
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medicine, Oriental -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Medical anthropology -- Asia -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Medicine, Oriental -- History -- Sources -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Medical anthropology -- Asia -- History -- Sources -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19360504