Conjugal Love in India
Ratiśāstra and Ratiramaṇa. Text, Translation, and Notes
Biographical note
Kenneth G. Zysk, Ph.D., Australian National University, and Dphil, University of Oslo, is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Indology at Copenhagen University. He has been Senior Fulbright Fellow to India, and a Wellcome Fellow in the History of Medicine in London, and has served as Director of Dharam Hinduja Center’s Indic Traditions of Healthcare project at Columbia University and taught at New York University. He has published two books and numerous articles on the themes pertaining to the history and practice of Indian medicine and Āyurveda, both inside and outside of India, is co-editor of a series on Traditional Indian Medicine, and is managing editor of the Critical Pali Dictionary.
Readership
Those interested in the history, culture and literature of India, and in the history of medicine.
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