Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIj4C-XieaM

08-05-2012 07:49 India's vast religious, ethnic, urban/rural, socioeconomic, and political landscapes set a fascinating and deeply entangled context for different schools of medical practice and different ways of being. How does one seek internal and external harmony in this massive democratic state? What (or who) determines the standards for health and disease? How does this change the ways in which Indians experience their own bodies? This film introduces medical care in northwest India through the perspective of three doctors working to integrate ayurvedic medicine with biomedicine. While navigating among different theoretical mappings of the body, the doctors also confront sociopolitical challenges that prevent communication among existing medical systems in India. Produced in collaboration with the International Association for the Study of Traditional Medicine (IASTAM) Featuring Dr. Narendra Bhatt Dr. RB Gogate Dr. Swati Mohite Filmed and Edited by Lan Angela Li, MIT

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The Vital Other: Integrative Medicine and India (2012) - Video