HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes -Evelyn Fox Keller, Ayurveda, Traditional Medicine
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This article explores the indirect link between ayurveda s feminization and its marginalization in relation to modern biomedicine, which may evolve to become more direct and consequential for women s health in the country. Does biomedical modernity compress indigenous medical plurality which consequentially impacts people s gendered experiences of medicine. This article takes up the question of gender and medical transformation in nepal through the experiences of women ayurvedic doctors who achieve high professional status in a patriarchal society and who increasingly encounter biomedicine. This was done via years of ethnographic research with formally trained (as opposed to informally trained who usually apprenticed in some manner) women ayurvedic doctors. This piece looks at three main contexts medical education and training of female doctors, their unique capability to heal female patients and the ways they enculturate medicoscience practices. Women patients preference for female patients empowers on one hand and strategies on the other. Marginalization of female doctors and increased feminization of.
