Mukharji, Projit Bihari.

Doctoring Traditions : Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences. - 1st ed. - New York : University of Chicago Press, 2016. ©2016. - 1 online resource (438 pages)

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Intro -- Contents -- Prefatory Notes -- Introduction / Braiding Science: Refiguring Ayurveda -- One / A Baidya-Bourgeois World: The Sociology of Braided Sciences -- Two / The Clockwork Body: The Pocket Watch and Machinic Physiospiritualism -- Three / The Snayubik Man: Reticulate Physiospiritualism and the Thermometer -- Four / The Chiaroscuric Man: Visionaries, Demonic Germs, and the Microscope -- Five / Endocrino-Chakric Machine: Hormonized Humors and Organotherapy -- Six / Baidya-as-Technology: From Diagnosis to Pharmacy in a Bottle -- Conclusion / The Pataphysics of Cosmo-Therapeutics: A Requiem -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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