Well-Mannered Medicine

Rachel Berger, Asian Medicine In Well-Mannered Medicine, Dagmar Wujastyk has crafted an intelligent and insightful take on the ethical terrain covered by the Ayurvedic medical tradition ... Wujastyk's skill as a reader of ancient texts and of modern temperament distinguishes this work from other contemporary takes on Ayurveda ... It is a remarkable and elegant read, thoughtful at every turn, and unrelentingly learned.

Frederick M. Smith, Professor of Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religions, University of Iowa Dagmar Wujastyk's thorough study of medical ethics in classical Ayurvedic texts adds substantially to our knowledge of Ayurveda as a medical system. Ethics here includes the moral attributes required of a physician, personal presentation, medical education, the doctor-patient relationship, medical deception, and much more. In this first rate study, Wujastyk avoids the danger of evaluating Ayurveda from the standpoint of Western medicine. This is required reading for everyone with an interest in Indian medicine or cross-cultural medical history.

<br>Dagmar Wujastyk is a postdoctoral research fellow at Zurich University in Switzerland and co-editor of Modern and Global Ayurveda - Pluralism and Paradigms. She has taught Sanskrit at the University of Bonn and Cambridge University.<br>

ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE PILLARS OF TREATMENT; 2 ON BECOMING A PHYSICIAN; 3 ON CONTINUED LEARNING AND INTERACTION WITH PEERS; 4 TO CARE OR NOT TO CARE; 5 THE REWARDS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE; 6 VERACITY IN THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; 7 ETHICAL ELISIONS; 8 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS; APPENDICES; A SANSKRIT TEXT PASSAGES: THE PILLARS OF TREATMENT; B SANSKRIT TEXT PASSAGES: ON BECOMING A PHYSICIAN; C SANSKRIT TEXT PASSAGES: ON CONTINUED LEARNING AND INTERACTION WITH PEERS; D SANSKRIT TEXT PASSAGES: TO CARE OR NOT TO CARE; E SANSKRIT TEXT PASSAGES: THE REWARDS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE; F SANSKRIT TEXT PASSAGES: VERACITY IN THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY