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Doctoring Traditions - Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences (Hardcover)
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Doctoring Traditions - Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences (Hardcover)
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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 belief that it was the result of
the introduction of Western anatomical knowledge and cadaveric
dissection. 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. The new Ayurvedic body that thus emerged
by the 1930s, while different from the biomedical body, was
nonetheless largely compatible with it. The more incompatible
elements of the old Ayurvedic body were then rendered
therapeutically indefensible and impossible to imagine in practice.
The new Ayurvedic medicine, therefore, 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 both the West and the East.
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