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Table of contents :
Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature
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

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Somatic Lessons Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature

Anthony Cerulli

Cover photo taken from Caraka Samhita. Edited by Khemaraja Krishnadasa with a Hindi commentary by Mihiracandra. Mumbai: Shrivenkateshvar Press, 1898. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2012 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Production by Kelli Williams-LeRoux Marketing by Kate McDonnell Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cerulli, Anthony Michael.   Somatic lessons : narrating patienthood and illness in Indian medical literature / Anthony Cerulli.     pages cm. — (SUNY series in Hindu studies)   Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.), University of Chicago, Faculty of the Divinity School, 2007.   Includes bibliographical references and index.   ISBN 978-1-4384-4387-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)     1. Medicine, Ayurvedic—History.  2. Medical literature—India—History and criticism.  3.  Sanskrit literature—History and criticism.  I.  Title.   R605.C48 2012  615.5'38—dc23

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