Ayurvedic Diagnostics (Madhava-Nidana) (Set of 2 Vols.)

About the book . Diagnosis froms the most significant part of medicine . The development of the science of diagnosis through successive stages of history makes not only an interesting read but it also equips ons with the experiences successes and the learning achieved by countless generations in the yore and help one to address problems of the future in an organized way . The pre - modern dianostics as prevalent and propounded by seers like Caraka and Susruta and countless other scholars was precisely put together by the madhava Nidana authored by Madhavakara Somewhere in 9th century AD . The work seems to have immediately caught the attention of physicians in India and abroad who found it the most serviceable text on diagnostics . Small wonder many scholars producedcommentaries on Madhava Nidana across the country . These commen - taries detailad the ideas  contained in the work and on occasions even advanced and repudiated the assumptions of Madhavakara as well as that of gret seers of the yore , A  reading into the various commentaries on Madhava Nidana demonstrates the background of Argumentative Indian Prof. Amartya Sen has been talking about recently . It also demonstrates the old Indian spirit of tolerance and the practice of lending a patient ear to the diverse and contradictory viws Nonetheless it is only a truism that decline of Ayurveda mostly owed to its poor standards of diagnostics Therefore it is significant that an authentic text on Ayurvedic diagnosis along with is Commentary is brougth to the acecess of English knowing readers In preparring the present.work it was a matter of satisfaction for us as we attempted to add modern perspetives every here and there in the text It is hoped that thropugh the present work , the students of Ayurveda the practicing physicians and those interested in Indian History could have a bettar understanding of pre- modern Indian society as well as its medicine .

About the Author. Kanjiv Lochan obtained Ph. D on History of Ayurveda and related medicines from the Center of Historical Studies , Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi . He has been awarded a Visiting Scholar Status From Department of Histiry and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge UK  and been a Visiting Associate Prof . of History of science with the Mahidol University , Bangkok Thailand Presently he is teaching history under ranchi Jharkhand, He lives at a rural town Lohardaga of this state.