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Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature
Anthony Cerulli-
Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature
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Contents
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List of Figures
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Translation
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Narrativizing the Body
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Intended Audience
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Plan of the Book
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Chapter 2: The Patient’s Body in Indian Medical Literature
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Medical Context and Organization
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Bodytalk I: Diseases, Prognoses, and Therapies
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Bodytalk II: The Three Humors
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Medical Storytelling
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Sources of Āyurveda: Carakasaṃhitā and Suśrutasaṃhitā
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Is there an Ayurvedic Way of Thinking (about the Body)?
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Chapter 3: Fever
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The Narrative of Fever
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The Structure of Fever in Narrative Discourse
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Fever in Brief Historical Outline
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Fever and Attachment
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Fever and Rudra’s Anger
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Chapter 4: Miscarriage
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Text-Historical Framework of the Kāśyapasaṃhitā
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Compendium Contents
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Definitional Issues
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The Narrative of Miscarriage
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Character Sketches
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From Heaven to Earth, from Goddess to Avatar
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Reality and Experience: Men Attending to Women’s Bodies
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Nature versus Nurture
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Chapter 5: The King’s Disease
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Terminology
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The Narrative of the King’s Disease
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Regal and Mythic History
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Astral and Terrestrial Observations
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The Royal Patient
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Chapter 6: The Joy of Life of Ānandarāyamakhin
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The Joy of Life in Context
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The Narrative Trajectory of The Joy of Life
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The King’s Disease and The Joy of Life
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pravṛtti-nivṛtti/Vijñānaśarman-Jñānaśarman
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Within the Walls of the Lotus City
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Chapter 7: Conclusion: Medical Narratives and the Narrativized Patient
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Medical Storytelling and Somatic Lessons
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The Narrativized Patient
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Glossary
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Notes
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References
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Index
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Published: 2012
Publisher: State University of New York Press