Series: Reclaiming Genius

Book 2: Medicine, Health & Human Life

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This is the second volume in Reclaiming Genius, following Book 1: Science & Mathematics. Where that book looked at proof, priority, and how mathematical and scientific work is remembered, Book 2 turns to medicine, health, and human life: how bodies are understood, how care is organized, and whose insight enters the canon as “modern” versus “folk” or “alternative.”

The same rules apply: reclamation means following evidence, naming debt to many lineages (including those outside the usual textbook map), and refusing both chauvinism and self-congratulatory myth. The book is written for readers who want a clearer story of health and healing across cultures—without collapsing complexity into slogans.

Contents

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About 130 pages. 20 chapters.

• Chapter 1 — Charaka — Systematic Internal Medicine
• Chapter 2 — Sushruta — Surgery and Plastic Techniques
• Chapter 3 — Yellapragada Subbarow — Antibiotics and Cancer Drugs
• Chapter 4 — Anandibai Joshi — Early Woman Doctor and Public Health
• Chapter 5 — Indian Nutrition — Ayurvedic Physiology
• Chapter 6 — Botanical Research in India — Early Plant Biology
• Chapter 7 — Indian Ethnobotany — Drug Discovery
• Chapter 8 — Public Health in Ancient Indian Cities
• Chapter 9 — N. N. Sen Gupta — Early Psychological Experiments
• Chapter 10 — Behavioral Studies — Indian Traditions
• Chapter 11 — Indigenous Epidemiology Knowledge
• Chapter 12 — Siddha Medicine — Systematic Treatments
• Chapter 13 — Indian Ophthalmology — Historic Texts
• Chapter 14 — Maternal Health — Midwifery Traditions
• Chapter 15 — Indian Contributions to Microbiology
• Chapter 16 — Ancient Detoxification and Pharmacology
• Chapter 17 — Early Surgery — Instruments and Techniques
• Chapter 18 — Cross-Cultural Medical Knowledge Transfer
• Chapter 19 — Mental Health — Indic Philosophy
• Chapter 20 — Ayurveda and Modern Integrative Medicine