"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard S. Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which Siddha medical practitioners in Tamil south India win the trust and patronage of patients." "Recipes for Immortality is based not only on physical effectiveness, but also on imaginative processes that relate to personal and social identities, conceptions of history, secrecy, loss, and utopian promise."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.