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| The
Origin of the Life of a Human Being |
| Author
: Rahul Peter Das |
| ISBN
: 81-208-1998-5 |
| Format :746
Pages,9.8" X7.0",Hardcover |
| Publisher
: Motilal Banarsidass Pvt. Ltd. |
| Year
of publication: 2003 |
| Book
Id : med209 |
| Language
: English |
| U.S
$ 82.95 |
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From the Publisher
This study attempts
to determine how the ancient Indian medical and
sexological texts would answer a non-medical question,
but also social and religious relevance, namely: What
happens in a woman's body at the time of conception?
To this end, numerous relevant texts were exhaustively
analysed, along with several secondary sources and
relevant data from other traditional medicinal
systems.
The highly
complicated material with data often widely scattered
on embedded in problematic contexts required complex
analysis. This also entailed delving deeply into
Indian medical and sexological theories in general,
and tackling basic principles and concepts, hitherto,
not satisfactorily described. In the process, layers
of obfuscation derived from preconceived notions and
apologetics and often first to be removed. This study
will thus also benefit those looking at aspects of
Indian medicine and sexology.
The main body of the
work has been augmented with several excursuses on
special problems of Indian medicine and sexology, with
an appendix in juxtaposition with Greek and Yunani
medicine and select technical terms. Further,
exhaustive indices of the text facilitate usage.
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