Doctoring traditions : ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences /
Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice changed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With "Doctoring Tradition", Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that transformation, upending the widely held yet little-examined b...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Braiding science: refiguring ayurveda
- A baidya-bourgeois world: the sociology of braided sciences
- The clockwork body: the pocket watch and machinic physiospiritualism
- The snayubik man: reticulate physiospiritualism and the thermometer
- The chiaroscuric man: visionaries, demonic germs, and the microscope
- Endocrino-chakric machine: hormonized humors and organotherapy
- Baidya-as-technology: from diagnosis to pharmacy in a bottle
- Conclusion: the pataphysics of cosmo-therapeutics: a requiem.