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.

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阿卡南：现代阿育吠陀的听诊器和制作，孟加拉，c。1894–1952

现代医学技术的历史主要是在生物医学背景下进行研究的。然而，医学史家越来越多地证明，一些非生物医学治疗传统——阿育吠陀和中医仅举两个——已经实现了自己独特的现代性。各种医疗技术的结合如何影响这些新传统药物？非生物医学疗法中的技术与身体知识之间的关系是什么？在生物医学和阿育吠陀背景下，听诊器等共享技术是否揭示了相同的身体事实？这些是本文探讨的一些问题，重点是在孟加拉现代阿育吠陀医学中听诊器的使用。