Knowledge Commons | Vitus Angermeier | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/vangrmr/activity/ Activity feed for Vitus Angermeier. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:21:47 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bbd00976112afeb0ad3d642f09850b94 Vitus Angermeier's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1946416/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:24:09 -0400 0 15d9da91d707bf7c925ca4b0ea15b5a0 Vitus Angermeier's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1924969/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:56:28 -0400 0 3bbe4207d2d02a8f4c38a980eac41410 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890603/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:25 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

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]]> 0 c409444f3ee8d6d3605a9108ae1e97b5 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Hinduisms https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890601/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:21 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb0d81f0858906e7c5bd9f21f07dc118 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890600/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:04 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 a37210d5f1ea7d521616119d75da7370 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890544/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:01:04 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6d64ae476bff0afadb04926cb34555a Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Doctors Between Civilisation and Wilderness. Medical Geography in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889649/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Usually theories on disease causation and treatment in early Āyurveda focus on the individual patient, his diet, and his lifestyle. There are however certain contexts, in which the locality or origin of factors jeopardising health is significant. Some climatic regions are understood to constitute more unhealthy surroundings in relation to others.…[Read more]

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]]> 0 4ccaf03dd2a9955532f55f6a372a9b98 Vitus Angermeier deposited Dharma and the Physicians: Ethic reflections in early Ayurvedic literature (pre-submission draft) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869006/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 03:01:17 -0500 This essay shows that physicians of early Āyurveda adopted a pragmatic approach to the challenges dharma imposed on them. While the concept and its importance is generally accepted in the medical compendia, various passages stress the fact that good health is an indispensable precondition to pursue dharma and other goals of life. In the interests…[Read more]

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]]> 0 a93222414dbbbfc2ad5ce38227c419d9 Vitus Angermeier deposited Causes of Suffering: From the Buddha to Ayurveda (accepted manuscript) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868103/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 03:00:27 -0500 Abstract: The causes of suffering are a central topic in Buddhism as well as in Ayurveda. The Pāli Canon and other early Buddhist texts like the Milindapañha mention eight specific causes resulting in disease or suffering at several places. In contrast, early Ayurveda, as presented in the Carakasaṃhitā, knows a threefold causal complex of dise…[Read more]

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]]> 0 2b57c7f028e76bb1f3fd4b833f04edc4 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Crisis in Ancient South Asia – Concepts, Causes, Countermeasures in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862537/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 03:00:24 -0400 Although a plethora of ancient South Asian sources refer to situations that would be considered crises by modern standards, the early Sanskrit vocabulary lacks a word that we could understand as a distinct equivalent of the term “crisis” and its Greek and Latin predecessors. Nevertheless, the descriptions and discussions of personal and col…[Read more]

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]]> 0 9dbc83d7e4aae6816453aa3f6df78b47 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Crisis in the Mahābhārata – Concepts on its causes, strategies against it in the group Indology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856254/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:08:10 -0400 In modern understanding, a crisis can be an event or a period of (or leading to) an unstable or dangerous situation. It can affect an individual, a group or the whole society. However, a crisis is not only a threat, it also implies the need for (and the chance for) change and improvement. Historically, the term was borrowed from Greek…[Read more]

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]]> 0 4aa5f25c33f3874e61370e0f319cb53e Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemic Prevention. Precursors of Public Health in Early Āyurveda? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853596/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 02:24:18 -0400 Āyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]

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]]> 0 7e166e3b6af61da21f82549f8f6cd0fd Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: The Threats of Adharma and Environmental Disturbances. Understanding Epidemics in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850224/ Sun, 25 Jun 2023 02:24:04 -0400 While the colonial and modern history of epidemics in South Asia is well researched, the earlier developments of this subject area have hardly been studied. The project Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia aims to fill part of this gap by exploring the intellectual history of epidemics and similar disasters in South Asia and…[Read more]

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