Dagmar Wujastyk, PhD, MA

Email

dwujasty@ualberta.ca

Phone

(780) 492-0612

Address

2-69 Tory (H.M.) Building

11211 Saskatchewan Drive NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2H4

I am an indologist (PhD, Bonn university 2012) specialized in South Asian history and in particular the history and literature of classical Indian medicine (Ayurveda) and iatrochemistry (rasaśāstra).

I am currently working on the history of Indian alchemical traditions.

From 2015-2020 I was Principal Investigator of an ERC Starting Grant project entitled "Medicine, Immortality, Moksha: Entangled Histories of Yoga, Ayurveda and Alchemy in South Asia (www.ayuryog.org).
The project examined the histories of yoga, ayurveda and rasaśāstra (Indian alchemy and iatrochemistry) from the tenth century to the present, focussing on the disciplines' health, rejuvenation and longevity practices. The goals of the project were to reveal the entanglements of these historical traditions, and to trace the trajectories of their evolution as components of today's global healthcare and personal development industries.
The project was carried out by a team of three postdoctoral researchers at the department for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at Vienna University, Austria and at Inform, Inform, London, U.K. and at the University of Alberta.

Monograph

Well-mannered Medicine. Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda, New York: Oxford University Press New York, 2012.

Edited volumes

– (ed.) Indian Alchemy – Sources and Contexts. Forthcoming (OUP NY, South Asia Research Series).

– (ed. with Christèle Barois). The Usman Report (1923). Translations of the Regional Submissions. EJIM Supplement 4, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21827/61e814114457b 

– (ed. with Suzanne Newcombe and Christèle Barois). Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia. Reprint. Delhi: Dev Publishers, 2020.

– (ed.) Histories of Mercury in Medicine across Asia and Beyond. (Indian Edition). Motilal Banarsidass, 2018.

– (ed. with Suzanne Newcombe and Christèle Barois). Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia. Special Issue of History of Science in South Asia, Vol 5 No 2. 2017 https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa.v5i2

– (ed.) Histories of Mercury in Medicine across Asia and Beyond. Special Issue of Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques 69, no. 4, 2015.

-- (ed. with F.M. Smith) Modern and Global Ayurveda. Pluralism and Paradigms. New York: State University of New York Press, 2008.