Medical pluralism or the coexistence of several systems of medicine in the public domain has attracted more attention than ever before in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and also generated its fair share of controversies. The acerbic exchanges between the Indian Medical Association, a professional body of biomedical practitioners and, a leading private company selling Ayurvedic products, on the relative efficacy of biomedicine and Ayurveda are illustrative of bringing out certain problems in the response of these medical systems to COVID-19 today.
Writing about the politics of medicine in a pandemic when the battle between the Indian Medical Association (IMA) said to be representing biomedicine and Baba Ramdev claiming to represent Ayurveda has been raging, is like walking on a tightrope, because the issues have to be separated from the individual or the association talking about it and their vested interests in the matter. One has to create the space to communicate
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