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Doctoring Traditions
- Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences
Af: Projit Bihari Mukharji
Engelsk
Bogcover for Doctoring Traditions af Projit Bihari Mukharji, 9780226383132
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
376
ISBN-13:
9780226383132
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
022638313X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
14 okt 2016
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2 x 3,0
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
14 okt 2016
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Doctoring Traditions

- Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences
Af: Projit Bihari Mukharji
Engelsk
Paperback 2016
Format:
Paperback
Bog beskrivelse
Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice changed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that transformation, upending the widely held yet little-examined belief that it was the result of the introduction of Western anatomical knowledge and cadaveric dissection. Rather, Mukharji reveals, what instigated those changes were a number of small technologies that were introduced in the period by Ayurvedic physicians, men who were simultaneously Victorian gentlemen and members of a particular Bengali caste. The introduction of these devices, including thermometers, watches, and microscopes, Mukharji shows, ultimately led to a dramatic reimagining of the body. The new Ayurvedic body that thus emerged by the 1930s, while different from the biomedical body, was nonetheless largely compatible with it. The more incompatible elements of the old Ayurvedic body were then rendered therapeutically indefensible and impossible to imagine in practice. The new Ayurvedic medicine, therefore, was the product not of an embrace of Western approaches, but of a creative attempt to develop a viable alternative to the Western tradition by braiding together elements drawn from both the West and the East.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
376
ISBN-13:
9780226383132
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
022638313X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
14 okt 2016
Størrelse i cm:
22,8 x 15,2 x 3,0
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
14 okt 2016
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