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Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+211. $31.95 Paperback. isbn 978-1-4384-4386-7.The book is a significant contribution to recent studies of Indian medicine that extends the opening up of the patient-physician aspect of Āyurveda, a topic that has also been presented in Dagmar Wujastyk’s Well-Mannered Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2012). Cerulli presents the social and cultural aspects of Indian patienthood and illness, acknowledging the dominant religious features of traditional Indian medicine and establishing multidimensional connections between the human body, society, and religion. He observes that all bodies are the same on the priority of body dharma, i.e. to keep it healthy through physical and socioethical preparation (p. 149). The author is successful in establishing the somatic lesson throughout this book in a recurring theme that a healthy body is necessary because it is the support that will enable the fruition of all earthly and spiritual goals.The author quotes the Carakasaṃhitā in chapter two and says that Vaidya, medicine, attendant, and patient are the four pillars of Āyurveda. The physician and the medicine of ancient India are widely discussed, but the author deals well with the comparatively ignored
Asian Medicine – Brill
Published: Jul 25, 2016
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