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By Richard S Weiss



Recipes for Immortality: Healing, Religion, and Community in South India By Richard S Weiss

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Most Helpful Despite the global spread of Western medical practice traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world In Recipes for Immortality Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of patients While biomedicine might alleviate a patients physical distress siddha doctors offer their clientele much more affiliation to a timeless and pure community the fa This book is a skillful study of Siddha medicine the least understood of the medical systems of India Richard Weiss writes with great craft and strategy about traditions competing for medical authority in postmodernity and very capably explores the tense

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