In the bonesetter's waiting-room : travels through Indian medicine
Prasad, Aarathi2017
Books, Manuscripts
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions. Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine came to be the way it is. Her travels will take her to bonesetter clinics in Jaipur and Hyderabad and the waiting-rooms of Bollywood's best plastic surgeons, and introduce her to traditional healers as well as the world-beating heart surgeon who is revolutionising treatment of the poor around the globe.
Main title:
In the bonesetter's waiting-room : travels through Indian medicine / Aarathi Prasad.
Author:
Prasad, Aarathi, authorWellcome Collection, associated with work
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2017.
Collation:
214 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Radio tie-in.Originally published: 2016.Published in association with Wellcome Collection.
ISBN:
9781781254875 (pbk)
Dewey class:
610.954
LC class:
R606
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1986834