Médecins et mémoires en Asie du sud

Medicines and Memories in South Asia

Asian Medicine Journal Special Issue
Volume 15 (2020): Issue 1 (Nov 2020)


Guest Editors: Lisa Allette Brooks, Anthony Cerulli, and Victoria Sheldon



“Note from the Editor-in-Chief,” 1-2
Pierce Salguero


Introduction, “Medicines and Memories in South Asia,” 3-9
Lisa Allette Brooks, Anthony Cerulli, and Victoria Sheldon


“Patienthood, Body, and Life Span: Approaching Death in the Carakasaṃhitā,” 10-29
Kathleen Longwaters


“A Surgeon’s Hand: Reflections on Surgical Tactility in Early Ayurveda,” 30–62
Lisa Allette Brooks


“A Hakim’s Tale: A Physician’s Reflections from Medieval India,” 63–82
Shireen Hamza


"Imagining Indian Medicine: Epistemic Virtues and Dissonant Temporalities in the Usman Report, 1923,” 83–106
Sabrina Datoo


“From Lebensreform to Swadeshi: Vithal Das Modi and the Development of Nature Cure in India,”107–132
Joseph S. Alter


“To Do Nothing: Revising Good Aging and Reviving Pre-toxic Pasts at a Kerala Nature Cure Home,” 133–160
Victoria Sheldon


“Are Dalit Women Healers Allowed to Claim ‘Tradition’?: The Phenomenology and Politics of Tradition in Rural Tamil Nadu,” 161–182
Kalpana Ram


“Epilogue: Healing Concerns in South Asian Texts, Histories, and Societies,” 183–196
Anthony Cerulli