Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry |
Autore | Barrett Ron <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/6109542 |
Soggetto topico |
Medical anthropology - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Aghorīs - Rituals Healing - Religious aspects - Aghorīs Leprosy - Treatment - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) |
Soggetto non controllato |
aghor medicine
aghor therapy aghori anthropology ayurveda biomedicines cannibalism charnel grounds conflict coprophagy corpses cremation grounds cremation death hardship healing powers healing health human skulls illness and health india kapalas living naked medical anthropology medical conditions meditation multicultural medicine northern india political organization politics pollution post mortem rites radical ritual bathing ritually polluted substances skull cups stigmatized diseases |
ISBN |
1-281-38565-4
0-520-94101-2 9786611385651 1-4356-5368-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Note on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Cosmic Sink -- 2. Fire in the Well -- 3. The Reformation -- 4. The Wrong Side of the River -- 5. Dawā and Duwā -- 6. Death and Nondiscrimination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782162203321 |
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Chagas Disease |
Autore | Heukelbach Jorg |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (150 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Medicine |
Soggetto non controllato |
Chagas disease
neglected tropical diseases migration healthcare rights mucosal leishmaniasis co-infection antimoniate therapy cardiomyopathy myocardial fibrosis myocardial sympathetic denervation inflammation sudden death cardiac magnetic resonance radionuclide imaging SPECT-CT PET-CT heart disease electrocardiogram disease progression stroke risk assessment Trypanosoma cruzi Triatoma infestans parasite prevalence coprophagy human illness neglected tropical disease global financing annual funding investments disease notification public policy neglected topical diseases healthcare access chagasic cardiomyopathy heart transplantation Chagas disease reactivation cardiac allograft rejection treatment of reactivation genome parasite neglected diseases heart transplant chagas disease reactivation Cohort studies Neglected diseases Dynamic programming cost of illness premature efficiency organizational life expectancy American trypanosomiasis Trypanosoma cruzi infection public health epidemiology prevention and control surveillance clinical research One Health |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557598203321 |
Heukelbach Jorg
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 | ||
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