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Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature

Anthony Cerulli
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  • Contents

  • 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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Published: 2012
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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