Book ID: CBB001214264

Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature (2012)

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Cerulli, Anthony Michael (Author)


State University of New York Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xviii + 211 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Looks at narrative in the history of ayurvedic medical literature and the perspectives on illness and patienthood that emerge. In ayurvedic medical practice, the ways in which and the reasons why people become ill are often explained with stories. This book explores the narrative aspect of Ayurveda, the dominant medical ideology and practice mode in India for over 2000 years. Looking at narratives concerning fever, miscarriage, and the so-called "king's disease," Anthony Cerulli shows how these shift 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, the book's Indian models contribute fresh perspectives to the very notions of health and illness."--Project Muse.

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Description “Looks at narrative in the history of ayurvedic medical literature.” (from the publisher)


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Review Pintu Kumar (2016) Review of "Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature". Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity (pp. 277-279). unapi

Review Martha Ann Selby (2015) Review of "Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature". Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity (pp. 379-381). unapi

Review Scharfe, Hartmut (2013) Review of "Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 684-685). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dearing, Stacey
Brigo, Francesco
Martini, Mariano
Orsini, Davide
Gillick, Muriel R.
Domenico Roccolo
Concepts
Patients
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Physicians; doctors
Personal narratives
Doctor-patient relationships
Time Periods
20th century
17th century
Medieval
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
India
Great Britain
Cairo (Egypt)
Glasgow (Scotland)
Catalonia (Spain)
Institutions
Merck & Co.
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