Hindu
Medicine and
Indian Food
Course
Description
One
cannot understand Hinduism without understanding
the basics of Hindu
medical and nutritional theory. The course covers
the development of South
Asian medicine, nutritional theory, and foodways,
from prehistory to the present,
with attenton to their religious significance.
Students will examine elements of
Indian civilization by exploring systems of belief
concerning food. The relations
between the cuisines of India and other world
civilizations will also be studied.
Previously
Offered:
Summer
2001, Autumn
2002
Next
Offered:
Autumn
2003
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Time
and Place
ReSt
223 [U66]
Hindu
Medicine and Indian
Food
---T--- 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM {Eads
116]
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Journals:
South
Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection
(SAMAR)
[A progressive South Asian American
magazine]
Special
Food Issue (Issue 12)
Online
"Biopiracy:
Let's BAG It!: A co-founder of the Basmati Action
Group argues
that
the corporate rush to patent life is a new form of
colonialism"
Public
Culture
Duke
University Press
/ Society
for Transnational Cultural
Studies
NX180
S6 P8 Olin Level B
Stacks
[Occasional articles on food and
medicine]
Books:
The
Oxford Companion to
Food
Davidson, Alan. 1999. Oxford: Oxford University
Press
TX349
.D36 1999 Olin Level A Stacks
Indian
Food: A Historical
Companion
Achaya, K. T. 1998. Dehlhi: Oxford India
Paperbacks
TX724.5.I4
A64 1998 Olin Temp-Click Request
Cuisine:
India
Cuisine
Links
to Indian Grocery Stores in the United
States
{Site included addresses, phone numbers,
directions, and maps]
Links
to Indian Grocery Stores in
Missouri
{Site included addresses, phone numbers,
directions, and maps]
Links
to Indian Grocery Stores in
Illinois
{Site included addresses, phone numbers,
directions, and maps]
Links
to Indian Restaurants in the United
States
{Site includes addresses, phone numbers,
directions, and maps!}
Links
to Indian Restaurants in
Missouri
{Site includes addresses, phone numbers,
directions, and maps!}
Links
to Indian Restaurants in
Illinois
{Site includes addresses, phone numbers,
directions, and maps!}
Washington
University Vegetarian Union
Jerome
Bauer's Favorite Recipes
Urban
Legends Concerning Food
Medicine:
American
Ayurvedic Association
Ayurveda
Portal (Ayurvedic Institutes in
India)
Ayurvedic
Institute Class Syllabus
Prerak:
Ayulink Newsletter
Dr.
Anil Patel
Dr.
Mukesh B. Paneri's Ayurveda Website
Chopra
Center (Ayurveda)
National
Institute of Health (NIH)
National
Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine
American
Medical Student Association (AMSA)
AMSA
Resources: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(CAM)
American
Medical Student Association, Washington University
Chapter
HuMed
(AMSA's Humanistic Medicine Action
Committee)
Humanistic
Elective in Alternative Medicine, Activism and
Reflective Transformation (HEART)
Society
of Ethnobiology (including
Ethnobotany)
Miscellaneous:
Society
for Transnational Cultural Studies
Links
to Regional Cultural Studies Associations and
Cultural Studies Sites
Vedic,
Ayurvedic, and Astrological Associations in North
America
Sanskrit
Manuscripts Online
Penn-In-India
[Note: This is a summer program, open to
non-Penn students,
and is recommended very highly by WashU students
who have enrolled!
The syllabus includes Ayurvedic medicine and
nutrition.]
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