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    The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine.Gregory P. Fields - 1993 - Philosophy East and West 43 (2):331-334.
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    Liberation as Healing in Classical Yoga.Gregory P. Fields - 2000 - Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 5:15-25.
    Classical or Patañjala Yoga diagnoses die human conditon as state of suffering caused by ignorance whose specific form is misidentification of self with psychophysical nature. This paper argues that liberation in Yoga is healing in an ultimate sense, i.e., attainment of well-being with respect to the person's fundamental nature and soteriological potential. Vyāsa's Yogabhasya presents the yogic remedy in terms of a medical model, and this paper excavates the therapeutic paradigm of the Yogasūtras using concept of health distilled from the (...)
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  3. Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga and Ayurvedic Medicine.Gregory P. Fields - 1994 - Dissertation, University of Hawai'i
    Religious therapeutics is the term I use to designate relations between health and spirituality, and medicine and religion. Dimensions of religious therapeutics include religious meanings that inform medical theory, religious means of healing, health as part of religious life, and religion as a remedy for human suffering. Classical Yoga is analyzed to establish an initial matrix of religious therapeutics with 5 branches: philosophical foundations, soteriology, value theory, physical practice, and cultivation of consciousness. Through comparative criticism of classical Yoga, the study (...)
     
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    Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.Gregory P. Fields - 2001 - SUNY Press.
    Explores the relationship between health and religion based on the model offered by the Hindu traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.
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    Giving the Body Its Due.Gregory P. Fields - 1995 - Philosophy East and West 45 (3):431-437.
    Eleven interdisciplinary essays investigate embodiment in contexts including epistemology, medicine and psycho-therapeutics, language, and art. An excellent resource for education in medicine, psychology, and other healing arts, as well as for researchers and others concerned with the body. Each essay opens meanings in the increasingly active field of philosophy of body. Western and non-Western sources contribute to "a metaphysics that upholds the truths of experience.".
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  6. Book reviews and notices. [REVIEW]Sita Anantha Raman, Robert Nichols Richard, Joshua Searle-White, Heather T. Frazer, Timothy Lubin, Robin Rinehart, Joel R. Smith, Andrea Pinkney, David Gordon White, John Powers, Phyllis Herman, Lawrence A. Babb, Carl Olson, June McDaniel, Knut A. Jacobsen, John E. Cort, Gregory P. Fields & Jeffrey J. Kripal - 2000 - International Journal of Hindu Studies 4 (2):185-216.
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