index 227
79, 182–83; family involvement
in, 29, 34, 57, 61, 92; impact
of time pressure on, 15, 36, 55,
65, 195, 196–98; narratives of,
35; options for, 13, 41, 84–87,
201; pattern of seeking, 98;
pragmatism in seeking, 32,
81, 111, 117, 119; reasons for
changing, 109–10, 115–16, 175;
reasons for seeking, 12, 91, 99,
146; violence in, 74–75
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 18, 38n6
mind-body dualism, 14, 16, 35, 38n6,
139, 156
modern medicine. See allopathic
medicines; allopathic treatment;
allopathy
monism, 141
mosques. See Beemapalli mosque
mudpack treatment, medicated. See
talapodichil
Mullings, Leith, 21
Nabokov, Isabelle, 72, 76, 85
Nair, Sunitha B., 60
nalla lakshyam (goal), 12. See also under
ayurvedic treatment
Narayana Guru, Sree, 26
naturopathy, 87
Nayar caste, 26, 39n15
Nepal, healing in, 19
Nichter, Mark, 37n3, 168
Nordstrom, Carolyn, 168
Nunley, Michael, 61, 64, 130
nyāya (Hindu school of philosophy),
44, 144
Okiyama ( Japanese healing system),
116–17, 118–19
ōrmma (consciousness/memory), 14,
149–50. See also experience,
modes of
Osella, Caroline, 197
Osella, Filippo, 197
oxytocin drugs, 198–99
pain: in allopathic treatment, 12; in
ayurvedic treatment, 15; in China,
37n6; in religious rituals, 179; in
treatment for mental illness, 11
panchakarma therapy, 48, 52, 103, 202
Parry, Jonathan, 141
Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, 64,
89n21
Patents Act, Indian, 64, 89n21
perception, modes of, 14. See also
experience, modes of
Persian Gulf: marriages, 128; migration
to, 24, 26, 115, 130, 133–34
personhood, 141
phenomenology, 12; defi nitions of, 17;
in relation to state process, 154;
local, 14, 35, 98–99, 127, 139–40,
141–42
philosophy, Indian, 30, 44, 49, 142–44
picchu (ayurvedic treatment), 52
pilgrimage, 11, 69
Pillai, P. Govinda, 26
pitta (bile), 46
place, attachment to, 114
pleasantness, in therapy, 20, 81, 103,
132, 160–61, 164; as resolution,
- See also under ayurvedic
treatment
Pollock, Donald, 141
Popper, Karl, 44
possession, 69, 71; experience of, 73; of
females, 73; rituals, 76
Postrel, Virginia, 203
privacy, 28
psychiatry, biomedical. See allopathic
medicines; allopathic treatment;
allopathy
psychologization, 37n6
pujas (worships, ceremonies), 67, 69, 72,
75, 76, 111, 186