Stories
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India
Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
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Woman and Chinese modernity : the politics of reading between West and East / Rey Chow.
Chow, ReyDate: 2003, ©1991- Journals
West of England journal of science and literature.
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The East in the West / Jack Goody.
Goody, JackDate: 1996- Books
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Energy Medicine East and West.
Mayor, David FDate: 2011- Books
Doctors in the East : where West meets East / Ho Tak Ming.
Ho, Tak Ming.Date: 2001