Maarten Bode
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maarten Bode |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maarten |
| FAMILY NAME | Bode |
| SIGNATURE | BODE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-2279-4237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revitalizing Ayurveda
Modern Ayurveda, a product of the colonial period, is marked by scientization, Sanskritization, and professionalization. In the last four decades of the twentieth century, Ayurvedic research by Indian government bodies mainly consisted of studies on the binomial botanical identity of Ayurvedic material medica, their physicochemical constituents, and the forced reconciliation of Ayurvedic notions with biomedical concepts. Research seldom found its…
Indian Medical Traditions Between State and Village
Apart from an introduction to the eight essays that make up this special issue of Asian Medicine this opening piece discusses India’s hierarchical medical landscape and the politics of value involved. Inspired by recent scholarship, I argue on the one hand that state-sanctioned medicine—formal biomedicine and formal Indian medicine—and, on the other hand, subaltern medicine practiced by informal practitioners—both folk and biomedical—typify the I…
Ayurvedic college education, reifying biomedicine and the need for reflexivity
The paper analyses the experiences with government sanctioned Ayurvedic college education of 14 young Ayurvedic doctors working at the Integrative Health Centre in Bangalore, India. Unfamiliarity with Ayurvedic logic and Indian natural philosophies, lack of clinical training and the mixing-up of Ayurvedic and biomedical notions are their main complaints. The 14 young Ayurvedic doctors also missed a convincing perspective on how to integrate Ayurv…
Assemblingcyavanaprāsh, Ayurveda's best-selling medicine
The paper discusses the many forms and representations of cyavanaprāsh, Ayurveda's best-selling medicine, already mentioned in Caraka's Compendium (c. 200 CE). The medicine's compositions, applications, and meanings, change over time and from locality to locality. Cyavanaprāsh is, for example, a patriotic formula, a booster of the immune system, a modern geriatric drug, and one of the elements in canonical Ayurvedic treatments. In the beginning o…
Veins of Devotion
Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India . Jacob Copeman . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2009 . ix + 264 pp . This is a great book. It is beautifully written, taps into and extends theoretical debates in Indology and anthropology, and deals with the urgent matter of providing safe blood to Indian patients. Veins of Devotion is an ethnographic account based on 15 months of fieldwork undertaken from…
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market
Although for over a century Ayurvedic and Unani manufacturers have played a crucial role in the modernization of Indian medicine and influenced the way Indians look upon their medical traditions, this fact has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians working on Indian medicine. By looking through the lens of the industry and focusing on medicines, this study questions the notion that traditional medicine is largely beyond commerce…
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market
Although for over a century Ayurvedic and Unani manufacturers have played a crucial role in the modernization of Indian medicine and influenced the way Indians look upon their medical traditions, this fact has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians working on Indian medicine. By looking through the lens of the industry and focusing on medicines, this study questions the notion that traditional medicine is largely beyond commerce…
Assemblingcyavanaprāsh, Ayurveda's best-selling medicine
The paper discusses the many forms and representations of cyavanaprāsh, Ayurveda's best-selling medicine, already mentioned in Caraka's Compendium (c. 200 CE). The medicine's compositions, applications, and meanings, change over time and from locality to locality. Cyavanaprāsh is, for example, a patriotic formula, a booster of the immune system, a modern geriatric drug, and one of the elements in canonical Ayurvedic treatments. In the beginning o…
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market
Although for over a century Ayurvedic and Unani manufacturers have played a crucial role in the modernization of Indian medicine and influenced the way Indians look upon their medical traditions, this fact has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians working on Indian medicine. By looking through the lens of the industry and focusing on medicines, this study questions the notion that traditional medicine is largely beyond commerce…
Veins of Devotion
Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India . Jacob Copeman . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2009 . ix + 264 pp . This is a great book. It is beautifully written, taps into and extends theoretical debates in Indology and anthropology, and deals with the urgent matter of providing safe blood to Indian patients. Veins of Devotion is an ethnographic account based on 15 months of fieldwork undertaken from…
Assemblingcyavanaprāsh, Ayurveda's best-selling medicine
The paper discusses the many forms and representations of cyavanaprāsh, Ayurveda's best-selling medicine, already mentioned in Caraka's Compendium (c. 200 CE). The medicine's compositions, applications, and meanings, change over time and from locality to locality. Cyavanaprāsh is, for example, a patriotic formula, a booster of the immune system, a modern geriatric drug, and one of the elements in canonical Ayurvedic treatments. In the beginning o…
Indian Medical Traditions Between State and Village
Apart from an introduction to the eight essays that make up this special issue of Asian Medicine this opening piece discusses India’s hierarchical medical landscape and the politics of value involved. Inspired by recent scholarship, I argue on the one hand that state-sanctioned medicine—formal biomedicine and formal Indian medicine—and, on the other hand, subaltern medicine practiced by informal practitioners—both folk and biomedical—typify the I…
Ayurvedic college education, reifying biomedicine and the need for reflexivity
The paper analyses the experiences with government sanctioned Ayurvedic college education of 14 young Ayurvedic doctors working at the Integrative Health Centre in Bangalore, India. Unfamiliarity with Ayurvedic logic and Indian natural philosophies, lack of clinical training and the mixing-up of Ayurvedic and biomedical notions are their main complaints. The 14 young Ayurvedic doctors also missed a convincing perspective on how to integrate Ayurv…
Revitalizing Ayurveda
Modern Ayurveda, a product of the colonial period, is marked by scientization, Sanskritization, and professionalization. In the last four decades of the twentieth century, Ayurvedic research by Indian government bodies mainly consisted of studies on the binomial botanical identity of Ayurvedic material medica, their physicochemical constituents, and the forced reconciliation of Ayurvedic notions with biomedical concepts. Research seldom found its…
Medicine (6 works) · Traditional medicine (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Alternative medicine (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Asian studies (2 works)