Article ID: CBB225854011

Akarnan: The Stethoscope and Making of Modern Ayurveda, Bengal, c. 1894–1952 (October 2019)

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Mukharji, Projit Bihari (Author)


Technology and Culture
Volume: 60
Issue: 4
Pages: 953-978


Publication Date: October 2019
Edition Details: Special issue: History of Technology and South Asia
Language: English

The histories of modern medical technologies have largely been studied exclusively within the biomedical context. Yet historians of medicine have increasingly demonstrated that a number of non-biomedical therapeutic traditions—Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine to name only two—have attained their own distinctive modernity. How has the incorporation of various medical technologies affected these neo-traditional medicines? What is the relationship between technologies and the body knowledge in non-biomedical therapeutics? Do shared technologies such as the stethoscope reveal the same bodily facts in biomedical and Ayurvedic contexts? These are some of the questions explored in this article by focusing on the uptake of the stethoscope in modern Ayurvedic medicine in Bengal. In the process the article also describes the emergence of a new sonic body in modern Ayurveda.

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Authors & Contributors
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul
Barois, Christèle
Stuart, Mari Jyväsjärvi
Madhavan, Harilal
Birch, Jason Eric
Mutalik, Gururaj
Concepts
Medicine, ayurvedic
Medicine
India, civilization and culture
Medicine, traditional
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Colonialism
Time Periods
Medieval
20th century
19th century
Ancient
21st century
20th century, early
Places
India
Kerala (India)
Mumbai (India)
Istanbul (Turkey)
Nigeria
Himalayan Mountains (Nepal)
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