Psychological Perspectives on Childcare in Indian Indigenous Health Systems
This book examines childcare in ancient Indian health systems from the perspective of developmental psychology. The author extensively studies ancient texts and charts from Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Tibetan medicines and analyses how gleanings from thes
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Psychological Perspectives on Childcare in Indian Indigenous Health Systems
Psychological Perspectives on Childcare in Indian Indigenous Health Systems
Malavika Kapur
Psychological Perspectives on Childcare in Indian Indigenous Health Systems With a Foreword by B.V. Subbarayappa
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Malavika Kapur National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Campus Bangalore Karnataka India
ISBN 978-81-322-2427-3 ISBN 978-81-322-2428-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2428-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015937013 Springer New Delhi Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer India 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd. is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
In the West, the tradition of medicine owed a great deal to the new ideas and methods enunciated by the Greek savant, Hippocrates of Cos (b. 430 BCE), which set aside the then prevalent faith cure as well as superstitious healing practices, and emphasised the importance of meticulous observation and inference of the causes of diseases. The Hippocratic approach was in the main related to its concept of the ‘four humours’, and the four ‘elements’ as well as their four primary qualities, namely hot and cold, dry and moist, as expounded by an earlier Greek philosopher, Empedocles (c. 500–430 BCE). This tradition had undergone some modifications around the second century CE by the exposition of Galen of Pergamum (who lived mostly in Rome), who thought of the basic principle of life in terms of a spirit, or pneuma: natural spirit in the liver; vital spirit in the left ventricle, and the arterial animal spirit. The Galen–Hippocratic medical tradition held fort for nearly 1500 years in the West, but had to yield place in the eighteenth century to the vibrant rationale of the scientific method in understanding the human physiology and the causes of diseases. However, the Galen–Hippocratic ideas had alread
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