By Anthony Cerulli
In ayurvedic clinical perform, the ways that and the explanations why humans turn into in poor health are usually defined with tales. This ebook explores the types and services of narrative in Āyurveda, India’s classical scientific procedure. narratives touching on fever, miscarriage, and the so-called king’s disorder, Anthony Cerulli examines how the scientific narrative shifts from medical to narrative discourse and the way tales from spiritual and philosophical texts are tailored to the scientific framework. Cerulli discusses the ethics of disorder that emerge and gives a family tree of patienthood in Indian cultural background. utilizing Sanskrit scientific resources, the ebook excavates the function, and finally the centrality, of Hindu spiritual notion and perform to the improvement of Indian medication within the classical period as much as the eve of British colonialism. as well as its cultural and old contributions to South Asian stories, the scientific narratives mentioned within the e-book give a contribution clean views on drugs and ethics commonly and, particularly, notions of well-being and illness.
“Cerulli’s lucidly written publication is an insightful glance on an outdated topic that offers the reader a refreshingly new point of view as regards to medication in conventional Indian tradition … someone attracted to conventional Indian scientific concept and wondering disorder will locate a lot to get pleasure from in examining this book.” — International magazine of Hindu Studies
“Somatic Lessons provides significantly to our figuring out of Āyurveda … the huge narrative sections of the texts which are Cerulli’s fundamental predicament were continuously undervalued within the scholarly checklist. Cerulli demonstrates the decisive value of those narrative sections in not just offering a cultural and non secular backdrop to those texts, yet in exhibiting how they actively control the whole approach and are very important in themselves. This publication is extremely unique in notion and supply, and intelligently addresses a huge sector of Indian scientific and cultural history.” — Frederick M. Smith, coeditor of Modern and worldwide Āyurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms
“Somatic Lessons is among the most attractive items of scholarship that i've got learn lately. it truly is good written, transparent, and illuminating. The paintings is a most crucial piece of scholarship in reviews of Sanskrit clinical literature and its dating to Sanskrit brahmanical literature and is nearly guaranteed to create a lot dialogue in quite a few educational circles.” — Kenneth Zysk, writer of Religious medication: The background and Evolution of Indian Medicine
Anthony Cerulli is Assistant Professor of non secular reviews and Asian Languages and Cultures at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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