Stories
- Article
How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science
The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.
- Article
Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Books
Indigenous and western medicine in colonial India / Madhuri Sharma.
Sharma, Madhuri.Date: 2012- Books
Taking medicine : women's healing work and colonial contact in southern Alberta, 1880-1930 / Kristin Burnett.
Burnett, Kristin, 1974-Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Contesting colonial authority : medicine and indigenous responses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India / edited by Poonam Bala.
Date: [2012], ©2012
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Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa
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Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits