Ayurveda : a comprehensive guide to traditional Indian medicine for the West / Frank John Ninivaggi.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780313348372
- ISBN: 0313348375
- Physical Description: xxv, 349 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Rev. ed. of: An elementary textbook of Ayurveda / Frank John Ninivaggi. c2001. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-322) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Background, history, and development -- Theoretical foundations and an overview -- Anatomy -- Physiology and digestion -- Prakruti and vikruti -- Health and the disease process I -- Health and the disease process II -- Nutrition and diet in Ayurveda -- Lifestyle and behavioral regimens in Ayurveda and in yoga -- Ayurvedic therapies, panchakarma, and materia medica -- The cultivation of consciousness -- The biopsychospiritual perspective in contemporary clinical psychiatry. |
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Subject: | Medicine, Ayurvedic. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | R 605 .N49 2008 | 30537062 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Ayurveda : A Comprehensive Guide to Traditional Indian Medicine for the West
Frank John Ninivaggi , M.D. is an Associate Attending Physician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, and a member of the Yale-New Haven Community Medical Group. He is also Staff Psychiatrist at Hall-Brooke Hospital in Westport, Connecticut, and the Medical Director for the Devereux Glenholme School in Washington, Connecticut. He is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology, and in 2004 was certified as a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He received his training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He holds university and hospital appointments at the Yale Child Study Center, where he earlier received fellowship specialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry.