CONTENTS: List of Abbreviations, List of Tables, Images and Appendices, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Arima Mishra, PART I LEGITIMACY AND RECOGNITION: Chapter 1 - Authenticity, Alliances and Results: Notions of Legitimacy held by Traditional Healers in South India Devaki Nambiar, Arima Mishra, Harilal Madhavan, Sarika Kadam, Shrish N. R., Steffy Dhayalan and Pooja Venkatesh, Chapter 2 - Accreditation, Certification and Self-regulation: An Innovative Approach for Strengthening and Reintegrating Traditional Community Health Care Providers Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, Hariramamurthi Govindaswamy, Sarin Sasikumar and Debjani Roy, Chapter 3 - Whom do the Rural Poor Consult for Health Care and How Much Do They Spend in India’s Pluralistic Health Care Arenas? Mark Nichter, Chapter 4 - Medical Pluralism and the Political Economy of Obstetric Care among Bangladeshi Women in Britain Sultana Mustafa Khanum, PART II DOCUMENTATION AND SYSTEMATISATION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE: Chapter 5 - From Siddha Corpus to Siddha Medicine: Reflection on the Reduction of Siddha Knowledge through Exploration of Manuscripts Brigitte Sebastia, Chapter 6 - Family Repositories to ‘Knowledge Commons’: The Discourse of Documenting Local Health Traditions in Contemporary Kerala Harilal Madhavan and Praveen Lal, Chapter 7 - Documenting Folk Ayurvedic Knowledge in Uttarakhand: Insights from Critical Medical Anthropology Moe Nakazora, Chapter 8 - Documentation of Traditional Health Knowledge: To What End? Arima Mishra and Devaki Nambiar, PART III GENDER IN HEALING: Chapter 9 - Nested Marginalities: Women in Healing in South India Arima Mishra, Maya Annie Elias, Devaki Nambiar and Rajeev B. R., Chapter 10 - Ritual Pollution and Women’s Blood: Listening to Dais Janet Chawla, Chapter 11 - Dais: Transforming the Traditions Renu Khanna, Chapter 12 - May the Vital Force be With You: An Indian Homeopathic Doctor’s Approach to the Gendered Ills of Our Time Cecilia Coale Van Hollen, Notes on the Contributors, Index.