Doctoring Traditions : (Record no. 43275)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780226383132
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Language English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 615.538
Item number MUK
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mukharji, Projit Bihari
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Doctoring Traditions :
Remainder of title Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences/
Statement of responsibility, etc Projit Bihari Mukharji.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc The University of Chicaco Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 374 p. :
Other physical details Ill, ;
Dimensions 6x9
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Contents Table of Contents
Title Prefatory Notes<br/><br/>Introduction: Braiding Knowledge: Refiguring Ayurveda<br/>Chapter One: A Baidya-Bourgeois World: The Sociology of Braided Sciences<br/>Chapter Two: The Clockwork Body: The Pocket Watch and Machinic Physiospiritualism<br/>Chapter Three: The Snayubik Man: Reticulate Physiospiritualism and the Thermometer<br/>Chapter Four: The Chiaroscuric Man: Visionaries, Demonic Germs, and the Microscope<br/>Chapter Five: Endocrino-Chakric Machine: Hormonized Humors and Organotherapy<br/>Chapter Six: Baidya-as-Technology: From Diagnosis to Pharmacy in a Bottle<br/>Conclusion: The Pataphysics of Cosmo-Therapeutics: A Requiem<br/><br/>Acknowledgments<br/>Bibliography<br/>Index
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Summary, etc Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that recasting, upending the widely held yet little-examined belief that it was the result of the introduction of Western anatomical knowledge and cadaveric dissection.<br/> <br/>Rather, Mukharji reveals, what instigated those changes were a number of small technologies that were introduced in the period by Ayurvedic physicians, men who were simultaneously Victorian gentlemen and members of a particular Bengali caste. The introduction of these devices, including thermometers, watches, and microscopes, Mukharji shows, ultimately led to a dramatic reimagining of the body. By the 1930s, there emerged a new Ayurvedic body that was marked as distinct from a biomedical body. Despite the protestations of difference, this new Ayurvedic body was largely compatible with it. The more irreconcilable elements of the old Ayurvedic body were then rendered therapeutically indefensible and impossible to imagine in practice. The new Ayurvedic medicine was the product not of an embrace of Western approaches, but of a creative attempt to develop a viable alternative to the Western tradition by braiding together elements drawn from internally diverse traditions of the West and the East.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Doctoring, Traditions, Ayurveda,Technologies,
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Department Name History
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/682385/pdf">https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/682385/pdf</a>
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction CUTN Central Library CUTN Central Library Medicine, Technology & Management 29/07/2024 Project for Department of History (Book transferred to concern project faculty) ICHR Project 2 1 615.538 MUK 52108 01/06/2026 10/09/2024 10/09/2024 29/07/2024 Project book Project for Department of History (Book transferred to concern project faculty) ICHR Project