Dagmar Wujastyk
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 309806 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dagmar Wujastyk |
| NOMBRES | Dagmar |
| APELLIDO | Wujastyk |
| FIRMA | WUJASTYK D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0216-6381 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Making gems in Indian Alchemical Literature
This article examines the practice of producing factitious gems as described in Nityanātha’s Jewel Mine of Mercury (Rasaratnākara), a thirteenth to fifteenth-century alchemical work written in Sanskrit. It queries how this practice fits within the Indian alchemical discipline and explores its possible connections with other artisinal crafts
Evidence for Hospitals in Early India
The article surveys the history of South Asian literature and epigraphy for reliable evidence regarding the existence of early hospitals. It explores the reasons that may account for the exclusion of South Asian data from international scholarship on the history of hospitals. The widely-repeated idea that King Aśoka built hospitals is refuted. Nevertheless, hospitals may be very early in India. It is suggested that scholarly medical literature on…
Iron Tonics
Around the eleventh century CE, Sanskrit medical texts began to record profound changes in the methods used for drug manufacture. New substances, especially metallic and non-metallic minerals, were added to the ayurvedic pharmacopoeia or were given new prominence. More significantly, however, new ways of processing raw materials were introduced that were thought to make them fit for medical use. Most of the new, but also many of the traditional s…
Contagion
Histories of Mercury in Medicine across Asia and Beyond
Mercury is today recognized as a harmful environmental pollutant and one of the world's most dangerous elemental toxins.And yet, it was long considered a near-miraculous substance capable of eradicating the most severe diseases.The medical use of quicksilver (liquid metallic mercury) is already documented in ancient Greek, Indian, Persian, Arabic and Chinese treatises on medicine and alchemy.Particularly early instances of procedures for preparin…
Mercury as an Antisyphilitic in Ayurvedic Medicine
In the sixteenth century, a new disease appeared in India. Described for the first time in the ayurvedic classic Bhāvaprakāśa by Bhāvamiśra, it was called phiraṅgaroga , “disease of the Franks”. Given the name and what we know from contemporary reports of European observers in India, this was very likely the correlate to the so-called “French disease” or “Morbus Gallicus”, i.e., syphilis. The Bhāvaprakāśa describes the symptoms and various stages…
Perfect Medicine
This article gives an overview of the earliest uses of mercury in classical South Asian medicine up to the nineteenth century, tracing and discussing important stages in the development of mercury processing. The use of unprocessed mercury might date back to the period when the oldest Indian medical compendia, the Carakasaṃhitā and the Suśrutasaṃhitā , were composed. It is certain that medical compounds containing apparently unprocessed mercury w…
Medical Error and Medical Truth
I attempt to relativize allopathic medicine, or Modern Establishment Medicine (MEM), specifically in the context of the ayurvedic medical system of India, and to promote Daniel Moerman’s concept of the medical “meaning response” as a preferable conceptualization of the phenomena usually subsumed under the name “placebo.” Finally, I suggest that once these steps have been taken, a space opens up in which informed ayurvedic practice – indeed, any h…
Interpreting the Image of the Human Body in Premodern India
Postmodernism, now fading partly into orthodoxy, partly into irrelevance, brought two new academic metaphors into common usage, especially in the fields of cultural studies and anthropology. The first is the metaphor of writing, derived mainly from work by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Using this metaphor, we can talk of discourses, textualities, inscriptions, readings, and deciphering. All experience and explanation is modeled on the a…
A Body Of Knowledge
A widely-known painting currently in the Wellcome Library (Iconographic 574912i) depicts an anatomical view of the male human body according to the tenets of classical Indian medicine, or ayurveda. The painting is surrounded by text passages in the Sanskrit language on medical and anatomical topics. In this paper, the Sanskrit texts are identified, edited, translated and assessed. I establish a terminus a quo for the painting, and explore the rel…
Policy Formation and Debate Concerning the Government Regulation of Āyurveda in Great Britain in the Twenty-First Century
Since 2000, the British House of Lords and the Government have been working towards a regulatory scheme for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Britain, a scheme that will include āyurveda. The present paper discusses these regulatory moves by the Government, and suggests that shortcomings in the range and type of evidence taken into account by the various Government agencies will leave a legacy of difficulties for CAM practitioners a…
Change and Creativity in Early Modern Indian Medical Thought
Medicine And Dharma
Images du corps dans le monde hindou
Comment se représente-t-on le corps dans le monde hindou ? Comment y est-il pensé et décrit ? Alors même que des recherches anthropologiques sur la société indienne l’ont placé au fondement des rapports sociaux entre castes, ou à la base des conceptions sur l’impureté, le corps n’avait jusqu’ici guère été étudié en lui-même. Aussi ce livre s’attache-t-il à restituer la multiplicité et la complexité de ses représentations, depuis la période védiqu…
The Combinatorics of Tastes and Humours in Classical Indian Medicine and Mathematics
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Hindi Manuscripts in the Library of The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Johannes Bronkhorst, Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics
No Abstract
Johannes Bronkhorst, Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics
Science and Vedic Studies
A New Edition of Vyāḍi's Paribhāṣāvṛtti
Studies on Indian Medical History
Studies on Indian Medical History
Papers presented at the International Workshop on the Study of Indian Medicine held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 2-4 September 1985
A Handlist of Sankrit and Prakrit Manuscripts. Vol. I
Ravigupta and Vāgbhaṭa
The text-historical problems surrounding the medical works attributed to Vāgbhaṭa are well known and have been excellently outlined by Vogel (1965: introduction) and again briefly by Meulenbeld (1974: 423-5). From the published colophons of both theAṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As.)and theAṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah.)we learn that Vāgbhaṭa was the son of Siṃhagupta. This is stated again in the text of theAs. (VI.50, end) where it is further stated that the autho…
Bloomfield and the Sanskrit Origin of the Terms 'Exocentric' and 'Endocentric
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Interpreting the Image of the Human Body in Premodern India
Postmodernism, now fading partly into orthodoxy, partly into irrelevance, brought two new academic metaphors into common usage, especially in the fields of cultural studies and anthropology. The first is the metaphor of writing, derived mainly from work by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Using this metaphor, we can talk of discourses, textualities, inscriptions, readings, and deciphering. All experience and explanation is modeled on the a…
Change and Creativity in Early Modern Indian Medical Thought
Bloomfield and the Sanskrit Origin of the Terms 'Exocentric' and 'Endocentric
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Medicine And Dharma
The Combinatorics of Tastes and Humours in Classical Indian Medicine and Mathematics
Science and Vedic Studies
Notes On Traditional Sanskrit Teaching
Bloomfield and the Sanskrit Origin of the Terms 'Exocentric' and 'Endocentric
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Ravigupta and Vāgbhaṭa
The text-historical problems surrounding the medical works attributed to Vāgbhaṭa are well known and have been excellently outlined by Vogel (1965: introduction) and again briefly by Meulenbeld (1974: 423-5). From the published colophons of both theAṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As.)and theAṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah.)we learn that Vāgbhaṭa was the son of Siṃhagupta. This is stated again in the text of theAs. (VI.50, end) where it is further stated that the autho…
A Handlist of Sankrit and Prakrit Manuscripts. Vol. I
Studies on Indian Medical History
Papers presented at the International Workshop on the Study of Indian Medicine held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 2-4 September 1985
Studies on Indian Medical History
Science and Vedic Studies
A New Edition of Vyāḍi's Paribhāṣāvṛtti
Johannes Bronkhorst, Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics
No Abstract
Johannes Bronkhorst, Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics
The Combinatorics of Tastes and Humours in Classical Indian Medicine and Mathematics
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Hindi Manuscripts in the Library of The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Images du corps dans le monde hindou
Comment se représente-t-on le corps dans le monde hindou ? Comment y est-il pensé et décrit ? Alors même que des recherches anthropologiques sur la société indienne l’ont placé au fondement des rapports sociaux entre castes, ou à la base des conceptions sur l’impureté, le corps n’avait jusqu’ici guère été étudié en lui-même. Aussi ce livre s’attache-t-il à restituer la multiplicité et la complexité de ses représentations, depuis la période védiqu…
Medicine And Dharma
Policy Formation and Debate Concerning the Government Regulation of Āyurveda in Great Britain in the Twenty-First Century
Since 2000, the British House of Lords and the Government have been working towards a regulatory scheme for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Britain, a scheme that will include āyurveda. The present paper discusses these regulatory moves by the Government, and suggests that shortcomings in the range and type of evidence taken into account by the various Government agencies will leave a legacy of difficulties for CAM practitioners a…
Change and Creativity in Early Modern Indian Medical Thought
A Body Of Knowledge
A widely-known painting currently in the Wellcome Library (Iconographic 574912i) depicts an anatomical view of the male human body according to the tenets of classical Indian medicine, or ayurveda. The painting is surrounded by text passages in the Sanskrit language on medical and anatomical topics. In this paper, the Sanskrit texts are identified, edited, translated and assessed. I establish a terminus a quo for the painting, and explore the rel…
Interpreting the Image of the Human Body in Premodern India
Postmodernism, now fading partly into orthodoxy, partly into irrelevance, brought two new academic metaphors into common usage, especially in the fields of cultural studies and anthropology. The first is the metaphor of writing, derived mainly from work by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Using this metaphor, we can talk of discourses, textualities, inscriptions, readings, and deciphering. All experience and explanation is modeled on the a…
Medical Error and Medical Truth
I attempt to relativize allopathic medicine, or Modern Establishment Medicine (MEM), specifically in the context of the ayurvedic medical system of India, and to promote Daniel Moerman’s concept of the medical “meaning response” as a preferable conceptualization of the phenomena usually subsumed under the name “placebo.” Finally, I suggest that once these steps have been taken, a space opens up in which informed ayurvedic practice – indeed, any h…
Perfect Medicine
This article gives an overview of the earliest uses of mercury in classical South Asian medicine up to the nineteenth century, tracing and discussing important stages in the development of mercury processing. The use of unprocessed mercury might date back to the period when the oldest Indian medical compendia, the Carakasaṃhitā and the Suśrutasaṃhitā , were composed. It is certain that medical compounds containing apparently unprocessed mercury w…
Histories of Mercury in Medicine across Asia and Beyond
Mercury is today recognized as a harmful environmental pollutant and one of the world's most dangerous elemental toxins.And yet, it was long considered a near-miraculous substance capable of eradicating the most severe diseases.The medical use of quicksilver (liquid metallic mercury) is already documented in ancient Greek, Indian, Persian, Arabic and Chinese treatises on medicine and alchemy.Particularly early instances of procedures for preparin…
Mercury as an Antisyphilitic in Ayurvedic Medicine
In the sixteenth century, a new disease appeared in India. Described for the first time in the ayurvedic classic Bhāvaprakāśa by Bhāvamiśra, it was called phiraṅgaroga , “disease of the Franks”. Given the name and what we know from contemporary reports of European observers in India, this was very likely the correlate to the so-called “French disease” or “Morbus Gallicus”, i.e., syphilis. The Bhāvaprakāśa describes the symptoms and various stages…
Contagion
Iron Tonics
Around the eleventh century CE, Sanskrit medical texts began to record profound changes in the methods used for drug manufacture. New substances, especially metallic and non-metallic minerals, were added to the ayurvedic pharmacopoeia or were given new prominence. More significantly, however, new ways of processing raw materials were introduced that were thought to make them fit for medical use. Most of the new, but also many of the traditional s…
Evidence for Hospitals in Early India
The article surveys the history of South Asian literature and epigraphy for reliable evidence regarding the existence of early hospitals. It explores the reasons that may account for the exclusion of South Asian data from international scholarship on the history of hospitals. The widely-repeated idea that King Aśoka built hospitals is refuted. Nevertheless, hospitals may be very early in India. It is suggested that scholarly medical literature on…
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