Part I: Knowledge and Society: Ancient Medicine in the Contemporary Set-up:
1. Contrasting Approaches to Health and Disease: Ayurveda and Biomedicine.
2. Ayurveda in the Twenty-First Century: Logic, Practice and Ethics.
3. The Patient as Knower: Principle and Practice in Siddha Medicine.
Part II: Medicine, State and Society:
4. AYUSH and Public Health: Democratic Pluralism and the Quality of Health Services.
5. Tension, Placation, Complaint: Unani and Post-Colonial Medical Communalism.
Part III: Away from the State: Initiatives of Practitioners and Protagonists:
6. Competing for Medical Space: Traditional Practitioners in the Transmission and Promotion of Siddha Medicine.
7. Medicine as Culture: Indigenous Medicine in Cosmopolitan Mumbai.
Part IV: Competing Indigenities: Mainstream versus Marginal in Medicine and Healing:
8. Strengthening Childbirth Care: Can the Maternity Services Open Up to Indigenous Traditions of Midwifery?
9. Global Standards and Local Medical Worlds: The Case of Childbirth Practices.
10. Recovering from Psychosocial Traumas: The Place of Dargahs in Maharashtra.
11. Local Health Practitioners in India: Resilience, Revitalisation and Reintegration.
12. Commercialising Traditional Medicine: Ayurvedic Manufacturing in Kerala.