Throughout history, there are many surgeons who can be held up as the ‘father of surgery’, however for Dr Shivaram Bharathwaj there is one who truly deserves the accolade
It took a few centuries of history and countless painstaking studies undertaken by scholars to shake off the paternalistic posturing of Eurocentric Western Enlightenment and tune into world knowledge systems. Whether in art forms or architecture, cuisine or apparel, mathematics or science the refrain has been the same. Buried under avalanches of political conquests, religious conversions or natural disasters, a lot of the “rediscovery “ of remarkable achievements of ancient civilizations in different fields has been the result of the painstaking perseverance and passion of deeply committed scholars. Medical and in particular the surgical sciences has been no exception to this.
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