Somatic Lessons

Cerulli, Anthony Michael:
Somatic Lessons : Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature / Anthony Michael Cerulli. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2012. - ca. 232 S. - (SUNY series in Hindu studies)
Hochschulschrift. Zugl.: Chicago, Univ., Diss., 2007
ISBN 978-1-4384-4387-4
US$ 80,00 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4384-4388-1
US$ 80,00 (E-Book)
DDC: 615.538
-- Angekündigt für November 2012 --

Beschreibung
In ayurvedic medical practice, the ways in which and the reasons why people become ill are often explained with stories. This book explores the forms and functions of narrative in Ayurveda, India’s classical medical system. Looking at narratives concerning fever, miscarriage, and the so-called king’s disease, Anthony Cerulli examines how the medical narrative shifts from clinical to narrative discourse and how stories from religious and philosophical texts are adapted to the medical framework. Cerulli discusses the ethics of illness that emerge and offers a genealogy of patienthood in Indian cultural history. Using Sanskrit medical sources, the book excavates the role, and ultimately the centrality, of Hindu religious thought and practice to the development of Indian medicine in the classical era up to the eve of British colonialism. In addition to its cultural and historical contributions to South Asian Studies, the medical narratives discussed in the book contribute fresh perspectives on medicine and ethics in general and, in particular, notions of health and illness. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Translation
1. INTRODUCTION: NARRATIVIZING THE BODY
   Intended Audience
   Plan of the Book
2. THE PATIENT’S BODY IN INDIAN MEDICAL LITERATURE
   Medical Context and Organization
   Bodytalk I: Diseases, Prognoses, and Therapies
   Bodytalk II: The Three Humors
   Medical Storytelling
   Sources of Āyurveda: Carakasaṃhitā and Suśrutasaṃhitā
   Is there an Ayurvedic Way of Thinking (about the Body)?
3. FEVER
   The Narrative of Fever
   The Structure of Fever in Narrative Discourse
   Fever in Brief Historical Outline
   Fever and Attachment
   Fever and Rudra’s Anger
4. MISCARRIAGE
   Text-Historical Framework of the Kāśyapasaṃhitā
   Compendium Contents
   Definitional Issues
   The Narrative of Miscarriage
   Character Sketches
   From Heaven to Earth, from Goddess to Avatar
   Reality and Experience: Men Attending to Women’s Bodies
   Nature versus Nurture
5. THE KING’S DISEASE
   Terminology
   The Narrative of the King’s Disease
   Regal and Mythic History
   Astral and Terrestrial Observations
   The Royal Patient
6. THE JOY OF LIFE OF ĀNANDARĀYAMAKHIN
   The Joy of Life in Context
   The Narrative Trajectory of The Joy of Life
   The King’s Disease and The Joy of Life
   pravṛtti-nivṛtti / Vijñānaśarman-Jñānaśarman
   Within the Walls of the Lotus City
7. CONCLUSION: MEDICAL NARRATIVES AND THE NARRATIVIZED PATIENT
   Medical Storytelling and Somatic Lessons
   The Narrativized Patient
Glossary
Notes
References
Index

Autor
ANTHONY CERULLI is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Profile page.

Quellen: State University of New York Press; WorldCat; Library of Congress; Amazon (Kindle-Ausg.)
Bildquelle: State University of New York Press
Bibliographie: [1]

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