Multiplicities in a Medical System: Examining the Changing Nature of Ayurvedic Practices and Products in India and the UK

医疗系统的多样性：审视印度和英国阿育吠陀实践和产品不断变化的性质

• 批准号: EP/Y016858/1
• 负责人: Sharmistha Mallick
• 金额: $ 25.55万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY016858%2F1
• 关键词: Multiplicities; Medical; System; Examining; Changing

AYUR aims to examine and compare the changing nature of forms and practices of Ayurveda (a traditional Indian medical system) indifferent socio-political and cultural contexts, at local-national-global levels. While in India Ayurveda is getting active state support asan indigenous and traditional medical system, it is seen as complementary and orientalist medicine-informed by spiritualism andancient medicine in the UK and other European countries (Cant 2020). AYUR will compare and contrast the changing forms andpractices of Ayurveda that are driven by the ideologies of market, religion and nationalism in India and the UK. The aim is to see howthese ideologies influence consumers' health choices and service providers' practices. With a comparative perspective and multi-sitedethnography, the study will examine its changes in local, national and global contexts.AYUR will take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach drawing particularly on sociological and anthropological/historicaltheories.By examining Ayurveda in different locations, the aim is to analyse the merger of medicine, wellness and preventive care and how thismerger creates a commodity called Ayurveda. AYUR will conduct ethnographies (participant-observation and in-depth interviews,examine promotional materials) of Ayurvedic wellness Centres to examine the similarities and differences between the centres andthe variations at the local- national-global contexts in terms of their mission, approaches and promotional strategies. By focusing onthese factors, AYUR will contribute in developing a deep reimagining of the anthropological understandings of health, illness andmedicine in local-national-global contexts.

AYUR旨在研究和比较阿育吠陀（一种传统的印度医疗体系）在地方-国家-全球层面上的社会政治和文化背景下的形式和实践的变化性质。虽然在印度，阿育吠陀作为一种土著和传统的医疗体系得到了国家的积极支持，但它被视为补充和东方医学-受到英国和其他欧洲国家的灵性和古代医学的影响（Cant 2020）。AYUR将比较和对比由印度和英国的市场，宗教和民族主义意识形态驱动的阿育吠陀的变化形式和实践。目的是了解这些意识形态如何影响消费者的健康选择和服务提供者的做法。本研究将从比较的角度和多地点的研究方法来考察印度草医学在地方、国家和全球背景下的变化。AYUR将采取跨学科和比较的方法，特别是利用社会学和人类学/历史学理论。通过考察不同地点的印度草医学，目的是分析医学、健康和预防保健的合并，以及这种合并如何创造出一种名为印度草医学的商品。AYUR将对阿育吠陀健康中心进行民族志（参与者观察和深入访谈，审查宣传材料），以研究中心之间的相似性和差异，以及在地方-国家-全球背景下的使命，方法和宣传战略方面的差异。通过关注这些因素，AYUR将有助于在地方-国家-全球背景下对人类学对健康，疾病和医学的理解进行深刻的重新想象。