Asian MedicinePub Date : 2021-02-17DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341475
Marta Hanson, Sarah Zanolini, Natalie Köhle, Dexter Kendrick, Alexander O. Hsu
{"title":"Expanded Possibilities for Teaching Asian Medicines","authors":"Marta Hanson, Sarah Zanolini, Natalie Köhle, Dexter Kendrick, Alexander O. Hsu","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341475","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the pedagogical forum. For our launch of this new format, forum editors Zanolini and Hanson invited a range of scholars and practitioners teaching East Asian medicine within diverse institutional contexts to contribute. Their different approaches to teaching can be more broadly applied to any medical tradition in Asia.","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"53 1","pages":"315-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78867339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2021-02-17DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341479
S. Wilms
{"title":"Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions, edited by Anna Andreeva and Dominic Steavu","authors":"S. Wilms","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"29 1","pages":"345-346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78213612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2021-02-17DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341476
M. Sappol, V. Lo, Penelope Barrett
{"title":"Imagining Chinese Medicine","authors":"M. Sappol, V. Lo, Penelope Barrett","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341476","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Asian 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.","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78070440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341467
Barbara Gerke
{"title":"Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry: Mental Health and Healing in a Tibetan Exile Community, written by Susannah Deane","authors":"Barbara Gerke","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"20 1","pages":"197-199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85672607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341463
J. Alter
{"title":"From Lebensreform to Swadeshi","authors":"J. Alter","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341463","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000As 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.","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"5 1","pages":"107-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73137121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341471
Pierce C. Salguero
{"title":"Note from the Editor-in-Chief","authors":"Pierce C. Salguero","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89172764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341460
L. Brooks
{"title":"A Surgeon’s Hand","authors":"L. Brooks","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341460","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The 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.","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"102 1","pages":"30-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78642590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341459
K. Longwaters
{"title":"Patienthood, Body, and Life Span","authors":"K. Longwaters","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341459","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Changes 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.","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"47 1","pages":"10-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90852721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341469
Arnab Chakraborty
{"title":"Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India, edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison","authors":"Arnab Chakraborty","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"44 1","pages":"203-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74351180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian MedicinePub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341468
M. Halliburton
{"title":"Depression in Kerala: Ayurveda and Mental Health Care in 21st-Century India, written by Claudia Lang","authors":"M. Halliburton","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"7 1","pages":"200-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89812439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}