Pub Date : 2021-02-17DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341479
S. Wilms
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Pub Date : 2021-02-17DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341476
M. Sappol, V. Lo, Penelope Barrett
Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the book review forum. For our launch of this new format, we have invited an extended review of a recently published landmark volume in our field and a response to the review from the volume editors.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341467
Barbara Gerke
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Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341463
J. Alter
As an institutionalized “indigenous” system of medicine in India, nature cure derives directly from ideas and practices developed within the rubric of Lebensreform, a radical, back-to-nature health reform movement that took shape in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century central Europe. Nature cure developed in twentieth-century India as a deeply embodied manifestation of Swadeshi, a social, cultural, and anticolonial political movement intimately concerned with independence and liberation. Significant parallels between Lebensreform and Swadeshi point toward an understanding of medicine based on the habitus of class and global countercultural practices. Using examples from the work of Adolf Just and other Germans writing at the turn of the nineteenth century and the case of Arogya Mandir, a nature cure hospital established by Vithal Das Modi in Gorakhpur in 1940, this essay examines how the radical, utopian ideals of Lebensreform were translated into institutionalized medical practice that facilitated the embodiment of Swadeshi as a political philosophy of health reform in colonial India.
在印度，自然疗法作为一种制度化的“本土”医学体系，直接源于在“生活改革”(Lebensreform)的名义下发展起来的思想和实践。“生活改革”是一种激进的、回归自然的健康改革运动，形成于19世纪末和20世纪初的中欧。自然疗法发展于20世纪的印度，是Swadeshi的深刻体现，Swadeshi是一场与独立和解放密切相关的社会、文化和反殖民主义政治运动。Lebensreform和Swadeshi之间的重要相似之处指向了基于阶级习惯和全球反文化实践的医学理解。本文以19世纪初阿道夫·贾斯特(Adolf Just)和其他德国人的作品为例，并以1940年由维塔尔·达斯·莫迪(Vithal Das Modi)在戈拉克布尔(Gorakhpur)建立的自然治疗医院Arogya Mandir为例，探讨了“生存改革”(Lebensreform)的激进乌托邦理想如何被转化为制度化的医疗实践，从而促进了Swadeshi作为殖民地印度卫生改革政治哲学的体现。
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Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341471
Pierce C. Salguero
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Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341460
L. Brooks
The Suśrutasaṃhitā, an early first-millennium Ayurvedic treatise with an emphasis on surgery, recommends a procedure for examining a corpse after first submerging it in a river. Prompted by the sensory insights of a contemporary Ayurvedic physician who simulated “hydro-dissection” on a human hand, I offer a sensory reading of representations of surgeons and surgical tactility in early South Asia. This study demonstrates that surgeons are represented in early first-millennium treatises as possessing specialized medical knowledge, performing dangerous procedures, and having greater sensory and bodily intimacy in their engagement with patients than general physicians. First, I compare passages describing physicians’ sensory engagements in diagnostic examination in the Carakasaṃhitā and Suśrutasaṃhitā. Then I examine representations of surgeons and surgical practice in the Carakasaṃhitā, a general medical compendium. Finally, I demonstrate that surgical tactility is represented in the Suśrutasaṃhitā as an interplay of sensory knowledge, technical skill, experience, and judgment, constituting the surgeon’s hand.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341459
K. Longwaters
Changes in medical technologies have increased questions about how best to handle end-of-life care at the same time as raising questions about the extent to which death can be held off or the life span extended. This article is an offshoot from a broader examination of medical approaches to the dying in two South Asian medical traditions. In this piece, tensions between letting go of life and extending it are illuminated by an exploration of patienthood and body in the context of dying via the Carakasaṃhitā, a foundational text of Ayurveda. These tensions continue in the tradition and speak to questions raised in biomedicine as well. An acknowledgment of the limits of medicine comes up against the desire to continually do more, to cure us of our mortality. Much work has been done on the concept of the body in South Asian medicines, but little has focused on the stage of dying.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341469
Arnab Chakraborty
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Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341468
M. Halliburton
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Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341464
V. Sheldon
In Kerala, South India, individual pursuits of nature cure (prakr̥ti cikitsa) invoke ethical narratives about an idealized purer past, contrasting a dangerous present saturated with social and environmental toxins. While first popularized in India by M. K. Gandhi, nature cure has gained contemporary fame as a low-cost intervention for Kerala’s purported health crisis: chronic lifestyle diseases. Nonprofessionalized natural healers identify as public health activists, teaching predominantly urban, middle-class patients how to revive local lifeways of self-doctorhood. This article narrates how two aging patients internalize their naturopathic doctors’ advice to detoxify and “do nothing” rather than strive for biomedical cure. By naturally revitalizing their bodies, they cultivate feelings of intense independence and ecological attachment that reconfigure experiences of migrated-kin isolation. In counterpoint to literature that frames biopolitical and medical discourses as causally producing moral subjectivities, this article demonstrates how persons agentively craft counternormative, vitalistic models of aging and health, contributing to broader localist imaginaries of reviving pre-toxic lifeways.
在印度南部的喀拉拉邦，个人对自然疗法的追求(prakr ā ti cikitsa)唤起了关于理想化的纯净过去的伦理叙事，与充满社会和环境毒素的危险现在形成对比。自然疗法最早是由甘地(m.k. Gandhi)在印度推广开来的，它作为一种低成本干预喀拉拉邦所谓的健康危机——慢性生活方式疾病——的方法，在当代获得了声誉。非专业的自然治疗师被认为是公共卫生活动家，主要教导城市中产阶级患者如何恢复自我医生的当地生活方式。这篇文章讲述了两位老年患者如何内化他们的自然疗法医生的建议，即排毒和“什么都不做”，而不是努力寻求生物医学治疗。通过自然地使他们的身体恢复活力，他们培养了强烈的独立感和生态依恋，从而重新配置了迁徙亲属隔离的经历。与那些将生物政治和医学话语框定为因果性地产生道德主体性的文献相反，本文展示了人们如何主观地制造反规范的、活力的衰老和健康模型，为更广泛的地方主义者想象中恢复有毒前的生活方式做出贡献。
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