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Medicine is a science. Its practice is an art however deep is a physician's knowledge. every clinical state is rather unique and demands an empathic skill by him. It demands constant and actual experience as well as devoted attention to the individual human being. It has overtones, in fact, to the very attitude a person has towards life and his own.
Here are the relevant social order and the resolution of its disruptive effects on the individual man. The sweep of modern medicine is thus almost all embracing. The book, executed as a project of the University Grants Commission, examines this possibility anthologically. It does so from as wide a range of Sanskrit sources as felt necessary.
This includes the Vedas, the Edicts, the Upanishads, the Dharmashastras and the Darshanas besides many classical texts on ayurveda and their commentaries and so on. The highly rationalistic modern mind would be more impressed if it is made to acquaint itself as directly as possible with the original statements of the Sanskrit authors. This is why the anthological methods is choosen towards this objective. This involves effective selection of the sources and quotations is Sanskrit, arranging them in an order best conducive to their appreciation by students of modern medicine.
Experiment is a purposeful manipulation of the circumstances to check the veracity of our hypothesis. In this sense, science is probably new to ancient Indian ethos or rather to human civilization itself. The book is an attempt to demonstrate this thesis.
About the Author:
Prof. K.H. Krishnamurthy (b.1928), B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., Ph.D., FBS has worked in the Universities of Gujarat, Mysore, Tamilnadu and Pondicherry and retired (1986) after 30 years of distinguished service in the Jawaharlal Institute of Post graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry.
Even after retirement, he is busily engaged in several academic assignment and projects. His professional positions had been as a Convenor, Faculty of History of Medicine; a UGC Emeritus Scholar, JIPMER; a Fellow in Ayurveda , Bombay hospital trust; a Visiting Professor, National Medical College, Bombay and a Fellow in Ayurveda, FRLHT. He is a distinguished Sanskritist and Linguist, has received many Honours and Awards and has authoured more than 100 research papers in National/International Journals. His may sided achievements are best revealed in the ranges (4) and the number (30) of his books. The ranges are Brain and Language (his doctoral work), Writing on Advanced aspects of Modern Science in Kannada and Sanskrit, General Works and on Medicinal plants/Ayurveda.
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