Medicalisation and Ayurveda: the need for pluralism and balance in global health systems
The current global economic and biomedical perspectives contribute content, strategy, and values to global health systems, like objectification and competition, which encourage the medicalisation of the system. Medicalisation overlooks our interdependence with other beings, the environment and biosp...
Main Authors: | John DH Porter, Mahesh Madhav Mathpati, Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, Darshan Shankar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0975947621001224 |
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