
Maarten Bode
Curriculum vitae
1977 | MA clinical psychology, University of Amsterdam |
1978-1980 | psychotherapist, Boumannstichting, Rotterdam |
1980‑1981 | Hindi studies at the Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal |
1981‑1982 | translator, Tokyo, Japan |
1982‑1991 | teacher computer science at Nijenrode College and Hogeschool Holland |
1994 | MA cultural anthropology, University of Amsterdam |
1996-2004 | guest researcher, medical anthropology unit, University of Amsterdam |
1998-2004 | PhD candidate CERES, the research school of the University of Utrecht |
2004 | PhD medical anthropology, University of Amsterdam |
2005 | visiting research fellow, medical anthropology unit, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam |
2006-2008 | affiliated fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies, University of Leiden/University of Amsterdam |
2008-2016 | adjunct faculty member, Medical Anthropology & Sociology Research Unit, University of Amsterdam |
2010-present | adjunct faculty member, Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Bangalore, India |
Special activities and positions
- Member of an international network of social scientists and stakeholders involved in the study, critical evaluation, revitalization and improvement of Traditional Medicine, especially Indian and Asian medical traditions
- Member of the board of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM), 2002-2009
- Editor of the eJournal of Indian Medicine (eJIM), State University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Peer reviewer for Anthropology & Medicine, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Social Science and Medicine,Modern Asian Studies, Journal for Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Tijdschrift Medische Antropologie and the Austrian Science Fund, etc.
- Fieldwork and thesis supervisor University of Amsterdam, Medical Anthropology and Sociology
Initiator of hosting the Indian Medical Heritage Research Network (InMerit) with the IIAS
Publications
2014 & G. Hariramamurthi, “Integrating folk healers in India’s public health: acceptance, legitimacy and emancipation.” eJIM 7,1.
2013 & Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, “Evidence based traditional medicine: for whom and to what end?” eJIM 6,1: 1-20.
2012 “Ayurveda in the 21st century: logic, practice, and ethics.” In: Leena Abraham and V. Sujatha (eds), Medical pluralism in contemporary India, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, pp. 59-76.
– “Ayurveda in contemporary India.” IIAS Newsletter 61: 52.
2011 “The transformations of disease in expert and lay medical cultures.” Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine 2,1: 14-20.
– “De vele gezichten van de hedendaagse ayurvedische klinische praktijk (the many faces of contemporary ayurvedic clinical practice).” Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Fytotherapie (The Dutch Journal of Phytotherapy) 24,2: 17-20.
– “Exchange visits by healers’ Group B.” In: Compas_I-AIM, Celebrating healing heritage, Bangalore: FRLHT_I-AIM, pp. 7-13.
2009 “Ayurvedic pharmaceutical products: government policy, marketing rhetorics, and rational use.” In: Karen Eggleston (ed.), Pharmaceuticals in Asia-Pacific: manufacturers, prescibing cultures, and policy, Palo Alto: APARC, Stanford University, pp. 251-265.
– “On the effectiveness of Ayurvedic medical treatment: humoral pharmacology, positivistic science, and soteriology.” eJIM 2: 1-24.
2008 Taking traditional knowledge to the market: the modern image of the Ayurvedic and Unani industry, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan (New Perspectives in South Asian History 21).
– “De werkzaamheid van Ayurvedisch medisch handelen (The effectiviness of Ayurvedic therapy).” Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Fytotherapie (The Dutch journal of Phytotherapy) 20,1: 2-8.
– “The modern image of the Unani and Ayurvedic industry.” Wellcome History 37: 4-5.
– Review of: Guy Attewell, Refiguring Unani Tibb: plural healing in late colonial India, New Delhi: Orient Longman 2007 (New Perspectives on South Asian History 17). Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 3,2: 370-375.
2007 “Taking traditional knowledge to the market: looking at Asian medical traditions through the lens of medicines and manufacturers.” IIAS Newsletter 45: 23.
2006 “Taking traditional knowledge to the market: the commoditization of Ayurvedic and Unani medicine.” Anthropology & Medicine 13,3: 225-236.
– “Ayurveda.” India Instituut Bulletin 2006: 8-15.
2005 “Ayurvedische en Unani medicijnen: farmacologisch onderzoek, humoraal-pathologie, authenticiteit en valide onderzoeksprotocollen (Ayurvedic and Unani medicines: pharmacological research, authenticity, humoral-pathology and valid research protocols).” Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Fytotherapie (The Dutch journal of Phytotherapy) 18,2: 16-19.
2004 Ayurvedic and Unani health and beauty products: reworking India’s medical traditions, PhD Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam.
2002 “Indian indigenous pharmaceuticals: tradition, modernity and nature.” In: Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Plural medicine, tradition and modernity, 1800-2000, London-New York: Routledge, pp. 184-203.
– “Ayurvedic and Unani bioceuticals: an anthropological inquiry into the modernisation of traditional medical knowledge.” Amruth 6,2: 18-23.
– “The commodification of indigenous medicine.” Amruth 6,4: 18-22.
2001 “Indian indigenous pharmaceuticals: the articulation of modernization and Indian modes of thought.” In: B.V. Subarayappa (ed.), Medicine and life sciences in India, project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Vol. 4,2, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 549-573.
1998 “On the consumption of Ayurvedic pharmaceuticals in India: extracting the poison of modernisation.” In: Anne Gevers (ed.), Uit de zevende: vijftig jaar politieke en sociaal-culturele wetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam (From the Seventh Faculty: fifty years of political and social-cultural sciences in Amsterdam), Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, pp. 361-371.
1997 “Integrated Asian medicine and the loss of individuality.” JEAS 5: 180-195.
1995 “Empirie en dogma in een Ayurvedische praktijk in Kathmandu: een pleidooi voor verlicht etnocentrisme in de medische antropologie. (Empiric and dogma in an Ayurvedic practice in Kathmandu: a plea for enlightened ethnocentrism in medical anthropology).” Medische Antropologie 7,1: 140-57.