Somatic Lessons : Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature.

Intro -- Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Translation -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Narrativizing the Body -- Intended Audience -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter 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)? -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 5: The King's Disease -- Terminology -- The Narrative of the King's Disease -- Regal and Mythic History -- Astral and Terrestrial Observations -- The Royal Patient -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Medical Narratives and the Narrativized Patient -- Medical Storytelling and Somatic Lessons -- The Narrativized Patient -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Looks at narrative in the history of ayurvedic medical literature and the perspectives on illness and patienthood that emerge.

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