Dominik Wujastyk
I work on Sanskrit language and literature, classical Indian studies, and the history of science and medicine in pre-modern India. I have active research interests in the social and intellectual history of precolonial India, the early history of yoga philosophy and practice, and traditions of debate in India.
I currently hold an appointment as Professor and Singhmar Chair of Classical Indian Society and Polity at the University of Alberta, (2015).
I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Sanskrit language and literature, Indian manuscript studies, the history of medicine in India, Sanskrit grammatical thought and literature, the history of India, historiography, and the history of Indian yoga philosophy and meditation.
In 1990 I founded the INDOLOGY online discussion forum (http://indology.info). In 2013, together with a board of distinguished co-editors, I founded the journal History of Science in South Asia (http://hssa-journal.org)
Phone: +1(780) 492-3111
Address: Department of History & Classics
2-81, HM Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Canada
Department enquiries: histclass@ualberta.ca
Department website: http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/
I currently hold an appointment as Professor and Singhmar Chair of Classical Indian Society and Polity at the University of Alberta, (2015).
I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Sanskrit language and literature, Indian manuscript studies, the history of medicine in India, Sanskrit grammatical thought and literature, the history of India, historiography, and the history of Indian yoga philosophy and meditation.
In 1990 I founded the INDOLOGY online discussion forum (http://indology.info). In 2013, together with a board of distinguished co-editors, I founded the journal History of Science in South Asia (http://hssa-journal.org)
Phone: +1(780) 492-3111
Address: Department of History & Classics
2-81, HM Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Canada
Department enquiries: histclass@ualberta.ca
Department website: http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/
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Baier, K., Maas, P. A. and Preisendanz, K. (2018) Yoga in Transformation. Göttingen: Vienna University Press through V & R unipress. doi: 10.14220/9783737008624.
The full book is released under a Creative Commons BY-SA license and can be freely downloaded from https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/theologie/religionswissenschaft/16133/yoga-in-transformation
The earlier upload here was a 2016 pre-publication draft of the paper.
cient Indian sage Yājñavalkya. Two key works are identified and reflections
are offered on their manuscript and print histories. A text and translation
of the section on yoga postures (āsana) from one of these works is presented,
with a discussion of the historical evolution of these posture descriptions.
Now published in: Jörg Quenzer, Dmitry Bondarev and Jan-Ulrich Sobisch (eds.), Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), pp. 159-181. ISBN 9783110225624.
I attempt to relativize allopathic medicine, or Modern establishment Medicine (MEM), specifically in the context of the ayurvedic medical system of India, and to promote Daniel Moerman’s concept of the medical “meaning response” as a preferable conceptualization of the phenomena usually subsumed under the name “placebo.” Finally, I suggest that once these steps have been taken, a space opens up in which informed ayurvedic practice – indeed, any human activities aimed at promoting health – may find a valid place.
Keywords: Ayurveda; India; medicine; alternative medicine; establishment medicine; placebo; meaning effect; iatrogenic death; Britain; National Health Service