Mukharji Projit Bihari
Technol Cult. 2019;60(4):953-978. doi: 10.1353/tech.2019.0097.
The histories of modern medical technologies have largely been studied exclusively within the biomedical context. Yet historians of medicine have increasingly demonstrated that a number of non-biomedical therapeutic traditions-Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine to name only two-have attained their own distinctive modernity. How has the incorporation of various medical technologies affected these neo-traditional medicines? What is the relationship between technologies and the body knowledge in non-biomedical therapeutics? Do shared technologies such as the stethoscope reveal the same bodily facts in biomedical and Ayurvedic contexts? These are some of the questions explored in this article by focusing on the uptake of the stethoscope in modern Ayurvedic medicine in Bengal. In the process the article also describes the emergence of a new sonic body in modern Ayurveda.
现代医学技术的历史在很大程度上一直仅在生物医学背景下进行研究。然而，医学史学家越来越多地证明，一些非生物医学治疗传统——仅举阿育吠陀医学和中医这两个例子——已经实现了它们各自独特的现代性。各种医学技术的融入对这些新传统医学产生了怎样的影响？在非生物医学治疗中，技术与身体知识之间的关系是什么？听诊器等共享技术在生物医学和阿育吠陀医学背景下揭示的身体事实是否相同？本文通过关注孟加拉现代阿育吠陀医学中听诊器的应用，探讨了其中的一些问题。在此过程中，本文还描述了现代阿育吠陀医学中一种新的声音身体的出现。
