Dear Sir / Madam,
Please let me know the more details about Registration charges,
Accomodation facilities & detailed programme so that it will be
better for all those who might be interested to attend this
interesting & informative event.
With warm regards,
Prof.Dr.Aashish Phadke,Mumbai
My e.mail - ayurinstitute@yahoo.com
Website Address - www.ayurvision.com
--- In iastam@yahoogroups.com, "bsebastia" <bsebastia@...> wrote:
>
> workshop on siddha medicine in Social Sciences
> 23-24 August 2007
> French Institute of Pondicherry
>
>
> This workshop aims to gather together social science scholars
working on
> Siddha medicine in order to draw perspectives for future
collaborative
> work.
>
> Siddha medicine, one of the medical systems legally recognized and
> supported by the Government of India, has received scant attention
from
> the social sciences to date. This medicine is little known outside
Tamil
> Nadu because of its assimilation to Ayurveda, its Tamil literature,
and
> its practice limited mainly to the Tamil populations of India and
> overseas. It is an undeniable fact that Siddha shares the concepts
of
> Ayurveda and uses a lexicology in a tamilized form of Sanskrit.
However,
> Siddha medicine has its own technical and social specificities,
which
> the workshop aims to explore.
>
> The proposed themes are as follows: the pluralistic practices of
Siddha
> medicine (governmental vs. private, regional diversities, etc.),
Siddha
> medicine and Tamil identity (invented tradition, historical facts
and
> historical claims, political discourses), and the social use of
materia
> medica (intellectual property, mass production and the market).
>
> Abstracts (300 words) should be sent before 20th June 2007, to
Brigitte
> Sébastia (brigitte.sebastia@...) or bsebastia@...
>