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Projit Bihari Mukharji

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Description:There is considerable interest now in the contemporary lives of the so-called traditional medicines of South Asia and beyond. Doctoring Traditions, which examines Ayurveda in British India, particularly Bengal, roughly from the 1860s to the 1930s, is a welcome departure even within the available work in the area. For in it the author subtly interrogates the therapeutic changes that created modern Ayurveda. He does so by exploring how Ayurvedic ideas about the body changed dramatically in the modern period and by breaking with the oft-repeated but scantily examined belief that changes in Ayurvedic understandings of the body were due to the introduction of cadaveric dissections and Western anatomical knowledge. Doctoring Traditions argues that the actual motor of change were a number of small technologies that were absorbed into Ayurvedic practice at the time, including thermometers and microscopes. In each of its five core chapters the book details how the adoption of a small technology set in motion a dramatic refiguration of the body. This book will be required reading for historians both of medicine and South Asia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences. To get started finding Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: There is considerable interest now in the contemporary lives of the so-called traditional medicines of South Asia and beyond. Doctoring Traditions, which examines Ayurveda in British India, particularly Bengal, roughly from the 1860s to the 1930s, is a welcome departure even within the available work in the area. For in it the author subtly interrogates the therapeutic changes that created modern Ayurveda. He does so by exploring how Ayurvedic ideas about the body changed dramatically in the modern period and by breaking with the oft-repeated but scantily examined belief that changes in Ayurvedic understandings of the body were due to the introduction of cadaveric dissections and Western anatomical knowledge. Doctoring Traditions argues that the actual motor of change were a number of small technologies that were absorbed into Ayurvedic practice at the time, including thermometers and microscopes. In each of its five core chapters the book details how the adoption of a small technology set in motion a dramatic refiguration of the body. This book will be required reading for historians both of medicine and South Asia.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences. To get started finding Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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