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| Narratives of Conception, Gestation, and Labour in Sanskrit Āyurvedic Texts | ||
| 作者 | Selby, Martha Ann (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Asian Medicine |
| 卷期 | v.1 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2005 |
| 頁次 | 254 - 276 |
| 出版者 | Brill |
| 出版地 | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | This essay looks at the ways in which medical discourse in Sanskrit is linguistically and meaningfully constructed, especially when this discourse directly addresses sexual difference in textual understandings of the ways in which conception, gestation, and the quotidian details of the birth experience are described by the multiple authors of these texts, and in some cases, by their commentators. I see it as my task to uncover and discuss the conceptual position of women in early ayurvedic literature; as objects of practice, but also as medical ̒actors̓ in and of themselves. In my conclusion, I will include some of my own speculations on the transmission of gynecological and obstetric knowledge, on what is ̒public̓ or ̒private̓ knowledge and on what could possibly be construed as ̒male̓ or ̒female̓ science. I will be paying particular attention to the gendered nature of medical authority in my concluding remarks, especially when analysing several circumstances in which women appear as agents and actors. I see āyurvedic texts as part of a larger cultural world: they share information and attitudes with other Sanskrit textual genres, particularly with dharma-śāstras (legal treatises), especially when the subjects in question turn to women and the regulation of their bodies in times of ritual pollution and reproductivity. |
| 目次 | Methodology, taxonomies, and textual registers 255 The narratives-translation and analysis 258 Authority and the transmission of knowledge 271 References 274 |
| ISSN | 1573420X (P); 15734218 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 15 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.07.14 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.05.18 |
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