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100 1 _aCerulli, Anthony.
245 1 0 _aSomatic Lessons :
_bNarrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAlbany :
_bState University of New York Press,
_c2012.
264 4 _c©2011.
300 _a1 online resource (234 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSUNY Series in Hindu Studies
505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
520 _aLooks at narrative in the history of ayurvedic medical literature and the perspectives on illness and patienthood that emerge.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aCerulli, Anthony
_tSomatic Lessons
_dAlbany : State University of New York Press,c2012
_z9781438443874
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aSUNY Series in Hindu Studies
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3408634
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