Fluent Bodies or Your Child and Epilepsy A Guide to Living Well

Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

Author: Jean M Langford

Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice Ayurveda in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of healing practices into a sign of Indian national culture, it was reimagined as a healing force not simply for bodily disorders but for colonial and postcolonial ills.

Interweaving theory with narrative, Langford explores the strategies of contemporary practitioners who reconfigure Ayurvedic knowledge through institutions and technologies such as hospitals, anatomy labs, clinical trials, and sonograms. She shows how practitioners appropriate, transform, or circumvent the knowledge practices implicit in these institutions and technologies, destabilizing such categories as medicine, culture, science, symptom, and self, even as they deploy them in clinical practice. Ultimately, this study points to the future of Ayurveda in a transnational era as a remedy not only for the wounds of colonialism but also for an imagined cultural emptiness at the heart of global modernity.

What People Are Saying

Vincanne Adams
This rich study incorporates a wide range of contemporary and historical materials to make wonderful theoretical interventions into the literature on Ayurveda and India. Langford pulls the reader into a new understanding of the nuanced relationships between history, nation, modernity, clinical debate, and the practices of Ayurveda.
— Vincanne Adams, author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution

Lawrence Cohen
This is an important, ethnographically compelling work. Langford's insights will substantially change the field of studying Ayurveda.
— Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

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Your Child and Epilepsy: A Guide to Living Well

Author: Robert J Gumnit

The author of Living Well with Epilepsy provides information to help parents understand their childrens' epilepsy, suggestions on how to evaluate health care, to find better care if necessary, and advice on how to help children with epilepsy to develop self-confidence and self-motivation.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Your Child Can Live Successfully with Epilepsy	1
2	Your Child and Epilepsy	7
3	Understanding Epilepsy	13
4	The Causes and Diagnosis of Epilepsy	19
5	The Holistic Approach to Epilepsy Treatment	25
6	Finding Your Way to High Quality Care	29
7	Being an Effective Member of Your Child's Health Care Team	39
8	The Importance of Early and Accurate Diagnosis	47
9	Antiepileptic Medications: The First Choice to Control Epilepsy	55
10	Surgical Options for Children with Epilepsy	71
11	First Aid for Seizures	81
12	Seizures in Newborns	87
13	Seizures in Infants	93
14	Seizures in Childhood	101
15	Treating Seizures in Adolescence	109
16	Living Well with Epilepsy: The Preschool Years	115
17	Living Well with Epilepsy: The Elementary School Years	119
18	Living Well with Epilepsy - Adolescence	127
19	Living Well with Epilepsy - The Young Adult	135
20	Are Seizures Really the Problem?	141
21	Sexuality, Sex, and Birth Control	145
22	Sleep, Nutrition, and the Ketogenic Diet	151
23	Driving and Epilepsy	157
24	Instructions for Babysitters	161
25	Residential Facilities	167
26	Is It Time to Change Physicians?	171
27	Career Choices for People with Epilepsy	177
28	Protecting Your Child's Legal Rights	183
29	Obtaining Health Insurance	195
30	Where to Turn When You Need Help	203
31	Keeping Hope Alive Through Research	211
	Appendix One. First Aid for Epilepsy	223
	Appendix Two. Driving and Epilepsy	225
	Appendix Three. Other Useful Books	231
	Index	233