TY - BOOK AU - Dinges, Martin. AU - Martin Dinges TI - Medical pluralism and homoeopathy in India and Germany (1810-2010) : a comparison of practices SN - 9783515104845 U1 - 615.532 DIN PY - 2014/// CY - , Stuttgart PB - : Franz Steiner Verlag KW - Homeopathy KW - Integrative medicine KW - Homeopathy India History KW - Integrative medicine Germany History N1 - Martin Dinges Introduction; Silvia Waisse East Meets West: Johann M. Honigberger and Medical Pluralism through the Eyes of a 19th Century Transylvanian Saxon in India; Shinjini Das Innovating Indigeneity, Reforming Domesticity: Nationalising Homeopathy in Colonial Bengal; Avi Sharma Rethinking Asymmetries in the Marketplace: Medical Pluralism in Germany, 1869-1910; Ameeta R. Manchanda A Homeopathic Clinic in a Multispeciality Hospital. Reflections from Practice. Raj Kumar Manchanda, Surender Kumar Verma, Leena V. Chhatre, Harleen Kaur Homeopathy in Urban Primary Healthcare Units of the Delhi Government: An AssessmentHarish Naraindas Nosopolitics. Epistemic Mangling and the Creolization of Contemporary Ayurveda; Hugues Dusausoit The Quest for Another Recognition. Ethnography of an homeopath in Tamil Nadu; Marion Baschin The Patients' Choice How and Why Sick People Used Homeopathy in 19th Century Münster; Rahul Tewari, Ramachandran Valavan Patients' Trend in Choosing the Homeopathic Medical System in India. Philipp Eisele Medical Pluralism and the Patients' Perspective in Germany Letters to "Natur und Medizin" (1992-2000)Nupur Barua Medical Pluralism in a Slum in Delhi: Global Medicine in a Local Garb?; Krishna Soman Pluralism, Popularity and Propaganda: Narratives of Lay Practices of Homeopathy in India; William Sax Looking Behind and Ahead; Authors N2 - Medical Pluralism is by now recognized as a reality in many countries. Studies, however, bringing together anthropologists and historians working on this subject are still rare. A comparative view on Germany and India with their different patterns of institutionalisation of medical pluralism is particularly rewarding. This volume focuses on practices starting with the story of a Transsylvanian lay healer who functioned in Lahore as a cultural broker. Indigenising of homoeopathy in Bengal shows a particular mode of appropriation ER -