Dienstag
08
NOV

17.15 Uhr

What is Āyurveda in the 21st Century – a Critical Appraisal of the New WHO-Benchmarks for the Practice and Training of Āyurveda (ONLINE ONLY)

Dr. Ananda Samir Chopra, Ayurveda-Klinik, Habichtswald-Klinik, Kassel

In the spring of 2022, the World Health Organisation published two documents titled “WHO Benchmarks for the Training of Ayurveda” and “WHO Benchmarks for the Practice of Ayurveda”. Initially drafted by official representatives of professionalized Āyurveda in India, these documents underwent several rounds of consultations incorporating the views of Āyurveda-proponents from countries around the globe. Meant to serve as a standardized norm and reference for individual national legislation, these two Benchmarks represent an important milestone in the continuing evolution of Āyurveda.

In the past 40 years or so Āyurveda has found an increasingly broader foothold outside South Asia, especially in Europe and North America. This globalization of Āyurveda went along with variations in form and content of what constituted Āyurveda. So-called “New Age Ayurveda” (Zysk 2001) in North America was perceived to be quite different from the professionalised Āyurveda practiced in India as well as from the tradition recorded in classical āyurvedic literature. In recent years we notice that notions and slogans of “New Age Ayurveda” find their way into India while on the other hand medical practitioners in Europe are increasingly including Āyurveda into their form of “Complementary and Integrative Medicine” and thus professionalizing it. The publication of these “WHO-benchmarks” happens at a time when Āyurveda-practitioners in India are campaigning hard for the right to practice modern biomedicine while in Europe and North America medical professionals turn to Āyurveda as an alternative to modern biomedicine.

The two benchmark-documents are forceful expressions of what Āyurveda should and can be in the years to come. They combine constant reference to the āyurvedic tradition with the exigencies of a professionalised medicine. Based on an analysis of the contents and context of these WHO-Benchmarks we will discuss the question: What is Āyurveda in the 21st century?
Please note that, contrary to previous announcements, the talk will only be delivered online!

Streaming / Video URL

https:// https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85967142365?pwd=UHRxRzcrWVd5YVJReU1VNzl1Wjd2Zz09

Homepage Veranstaltung

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup

Veranstalter

Südasien-Institut, Abteilung Ethnologie

Homepage Veranstalter

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/index.php?language=de&page=home

Kontakt

Lin Nagels

Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Medical Anthropology Forum - Wintersemester 2022/23':

The forum as a public event was designed to be a space where senior students and researchers could gather with MAHASSA students and other interested parties to discover and discuss current themes in medical anthropology. Medical anthropology raises important intellectual and scientific questions about human suffering and wellbeing, and about the human body in its relation to culture and society. This is a “survey course,” meaning that we will survey the most important topics in this field, including illness and suffering, ethnomedicine, ritual healing, the anthropology of the body, mental health and culture, medical pluralism and hegemony, critical medical anthropology, science technology and medicine studies, and others.

Please note that individual talks are offered in person (or possibly in a hybrid format), while others are offered online only.

Dienstag, 08. November 2022, 17.15 Uhr

What is Āyurveda in the 21st Century – a Critical Appraisal of the New WHO-Benchmarks for the Practice and Training of Āyurveda (ONLINE ONLY)

Dr. Ananda Samir Chopra, Ayurveda-Klinik, Habichtswald-Klinik, Kassel

Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2022, 17.15 Uhr

Global Health Interventions: From Design to Causal Impact

Prof. Dr. Dr. Till Bärnighausen, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health

Dienstag, 17. Januar 2023, 17.15 Uhr

Achieving Health Equity in Nagaland, India: Collaboratively Paving a Way Forward

Dr. Rhondemo A. Kikon, Humboldt Fellow (German Chancellor Fellowship Programme), Heidelberg Institute of Public Health

Dienstag, 31. Januar 2023, 17.15 Uhr

Emotional Labour in Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Process (ONLINE ONLY)

Dr. Eva Ambos, Visiting Scholar, University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka) and Research Scholar, University of Tübingen & Ananda Galappatti, Independent Researcher

Dienstag, 14. Februar 2023, 17.15 Uhr

De-Duplicating the Subject of Care: Biometrics and their Discontents in India (ONLINE ONLY)

Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley