Recipes for Immortality. Healing, Religion, and Community in South India.

Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immorality, 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 pa...

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Main Author: Weiss, Richard S.
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Religion module.
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