Chapter 1: Within the Field: History, Practitioners, and
Frameworks
Chapter 2: Dr. Narendra Nath Tiwari, Teacher and Botanist
Chapter 3: Dr. Rishi Ram Koirala, Healer
Chapter 4: Developing Ayurveda
Chapter 5: Dr. Lokendra Man Singh, Surgeon and Visionary
Educator
Chapter 6: Gender, Culture, Science, and Ayurvedic Medicine: Five
Women Doctors
Mary M. Cameron is professor of anthropology at Florida Atlantic University.
Three Fruits is a magnificent study of Ayurveda as a vibrant
intellectual and therapeutic tradition at a critical historical
moment. The ethnographic core is a brilliantly crafted depiction of
practitioners in their social and political working environments.
This sequence of insider views generates a great sensibility
towards the system of knowledge about human-environmental vital
dependencies in the terms of real characters, whose careers of
healing are faithfully brought to life. The book contains
furthermore an astute assessment of the contemporary value of
ayurvedic knowledge in appreciating the need to protect globally
biodiverse ecologies as cultural landscapes, with potential at the
same time to contribute towards an equitable, just, and affordable
plural public health care system. Three Fruits will multiply the
numbers of readers who already know Mary Cameron to be an
exceptional observer of social change in Nepal, with a keen
activist’s interest in making a shared tradition find its voice to
influence that change for the better.”
*Ben Campbell, University of Durham*
“Three Fruits is a significant contribution to anthropological
studies of Ayurveda in South Asia. Drawing on decades of research,
Mary Cameron tells a compelling story of how practitioners of
traditional healing adapted to a medical system that was predicated
on modern medicine pushed by the state. The book is as much about
the political economy of Ayurveda as it is about Ayurveda as a
cultural system. Told through a series of biographies of ayurvedic
practitioners, Cameron’s narrative illuminates the challenges faced
by resource-poor societies in the global south as they strive to
reconcile traditional forms of knowledge with their commitment to
modernization.”
*Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College*
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