Reviews
"[A] fine example of contemporary research located within a post-modern framework."--Farah M. Shroff, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology "[I]lluminating. . . . [Langford's] accessible examination of the neo-orientalism with which modern Ayurveda and the development of its terminology is constructed will be of importance to scholars (and students) of a variety of disciplines."--Frederick M. Smith, Religious Studies Review "This is an important book. Jean M. Langford provides an insightful description of how different ayurvedic traditions developed and coexisted in both colonial and independent India. . . . The author's formidable linguistic, analytical, and writing skills shine through in this book. . . . [C]ompelling and instructive. . . . [U]ndergraduates and postgraduates, as well as teachers in history and anthropology departments worldwide, are likely to find it of great interest."--Sanjoy Bhattacharya, American Historical Review Also reviewed in Critical Sociology. Listed in Journal of Asian History and, Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Mixed review in Australian Journal of Anthropology, "This rich study incorporates a wide range of contemporary and historical materials to make wonderful theoretical interventions into the literature on Ayurveda and India. Langford pulls the reader into a new understanding of the nuanced relationships between history, nation, modernity, clinical debate, and the practices of Ayurveda."--Vincanne Adams, author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution, "This rich study incorporates a wide range of contemporary and historical materials to make wonderful theoretical interventions into the literature on Ayurveda and India. Langford pulls the reader into a new understanding of the nuanced relationships between history, nation, modernity, clinical debate, and the practices of Ayurveda."-Vincanne Adams, author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution, “This rich study incorporates a wide range of contemporary and historical materials to make wonderful theoretical interventions into the literature on Ayurveda and India. Langford pulls the reader into a new understanding of the nuanced relationships between history, nation, modernity, clinical debate, and the practices of Ayurveda.�-Vincanne Adams, author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution, "[A] fine example of contemporary research located within a post-modern framework."-Farah M. Shroff, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology "[I]lluminating. . . . [Langford's] accessible examination of the neo-orientalism with which modern Ayurveda and the development of its terminology is constructed will be of importance to scholars (and students) of a variety of disciplines."-Frederick M. Smith, Religious Studies Review "This is an important book. Jean M. Langford provides an insightful description of how different ayurvedic traditions developed and coexisted in both colonial and independent India. . . . The author's formidable linguistic, analytical, and writing skills shine through in this book. . . . [C]ompelling and instructive. . . . [U]ndergraduates and postgraduates, as well as teachers in history and anthropology departments worldwide, are likely to find it of great interest."-Sanjoy Bhattacharya, American Historical Review Also reviewed in Critical Sociology. Listed in Journal of Asian History and, Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Mixed review in Australian Journal of Anthropology
