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Concepts of arthritis in India's medical traditions:


Ayurvedic and Unani perspectives
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Pugh, Judy F.
Abstract

Anthropology and other social sciences have not given detailed attention to cultural constructions
of arthritic disorders and their place in traditional medical systems. Humoral medicine and its
numerous crosscultural variants offer an important perspective on the conceptualization and
treatment of arthritis. The present paper provides a descriptive account of rheumatic disorders in
India's Ayurvedic and Unani medical traditions. Data derive from anthropological fieldwork in
the New Delhi metropolitan area and from Ayurvedic and Unani texts and secondary sources.
The discussion explores these two traditions together as a polysynthetic field of ideas, practices,
and materials, and it highlights their congruent concepts of arthritis and related somatic concepts,
etiologies, and treatments. It reveals parallels in the clinical practices of Ayurvedic and Unani
practitioners and identifies a broadly shared model of arthritis that circulates between these
practitioners and their ethnically diverse patient-clienteles. The paper suggests that this South
Asian humoral model provides a framework that may be useful in anthropological studies of
arthritis in other humoral traditions.
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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Social Science & Medicine.
Volume (Year): 56 (2003)
Issue (Month): 2 (January)
Pages: 415-424
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Keywords: Arthritis India Ayurveda Unani Humoral medicine Pain;
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