[Reader-list] Inaugural C R Parekh Memorial Lecture by Patrick Olivelle on 'The Medical Profession in Ancient India'

[Praveen Rai]

Institute of Indian Thought, CSDS

invites you to the

*Inaugural C R Parekh Memorial Lecture*





*The Medical Profession in Ancient India: *

*Its Social, Religious, and Legal Status*

by *Patrick Olivelle*





*Ranjit Roy Chaudhury* will Chair

Thursday, 20 August 2015, 7 pm


Lecture Room I, Annexe,
              RSVP

India International Centre,
             Tel: 011 23942199

40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003
     Fax: 011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 6.30 pm
             email: jaya at csds.in





This lecture addresses two questions: What was the social status of medical
professionals in ancient India? and, Did that status differ among different
socio-economic and religious groups and among medical pratitioners
specializing in different areas of medicine? It examines the terminology in
ancient Indian texts to depict medical professional and finds in it some
clues as to the changing status of these professionals within Indian
society.



*Patrick Olivelle*, former President of the American Oriental Society and
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit at
the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Chair of the Department
of Asian Studies for thirteen years. He has won book awards from the
Association for Asian Studies and the American Academy of Relgion. His
numerous publications include: *King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India,
*translation of Kauṭilya's *Arthaśāstra, *(2013), *Vi**ṣṇ**u's Code of Law*
(2009), *The Life of the Buddha *(2008), and *Manu's Code of Law *(2005).
His recent work focuses on ancient Indian legal tradition.



*Ranjit Roy Chaudhury* is the Chairman of the Task Force for Research of
Apollo Hospitals Group in India. He has served as Dean at the Postgraduate
Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh and in senior
positions in the World Health Organization. His research work is in the
field of reproductive pharmacology, rational use of medicines and in
traditional systems of medicine. As the Founder President of the Delhi
Medical Council he set up a transparent and equitable system of governance
for regulating the medical profession.  He chaired the committee for
Postgraduate Medical Education in India and is a leading medical
researcher, a specialist in medical teaching and a health planner for the
country.
-- 
Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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