Maharishi Ayurveda and Historical Newspaper Articles: A Statistical Analysis of Latent Factors
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Article Title | Maharishi Ayurveda and Historical Newspaper Articles: A Statistical Analysis of Latent Factors |
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Article Category | Article |
Authors | Fergusson, Lee and Palakurthi, Manohar |
Journal Title | Annals of Ayurvedic Medicine |
Journal Citation | 12 (1), pp. 8-37 |
Number of Pages | 30 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | Association of Ayurvedic Physicians of India |
Place of Publication | India |
ISSN | 2277-4092 |
2347-6923 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5455/AAM.122085 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.ejmanager.com/mnstemps/70/70-1666069009.pdf?t=1690148919 |
Abstract | For more than a hundred years, Western news media intermittently reported on the unique properties and practices of Ayurveda, the science of health and long life from ancient India. However, in the last 40 years there has been a significant explosion of reporting on Ayurveda, and this has been in large part due to the efforts of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Beginning in the late 1970s, Maharishi, along with eminent Ayurvedic physicians Dr Brihaspati Dev Triguna, Dr V. M. Dwivedi, and Dr Balraj Maharishi, began a program to restore the full dignity of Ayurveda by revitalising its foundations in Veda and the Vedic Literature and expanding its range to include the fundamental role of consciousness in health on the one hand and its application to collective health and the environment on the other. This program of revitalisation, called Maharishi Ayurveda, has been reported in newspapers but the content of these historical articles has never been documented. The present study statistically analyses the dates, locations, and sources of quotations in newspaper articles, identifies 29 key topics, and uses exploratory factor analysis to uncover four unobservable themes embedded within them. |
Keywords | Maharishi Ayurveda, newspaper articles, health topics, exploratory factor analysis |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 420899. Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/yzxz0/maharishi-ayurveda-and-historical-newspaper-articles-a-statistical-analysis-of-latent-factors
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