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Zusatztext Compact and readable, and yet richly informative about the interactions between a wonderful diversity of linguistic and scholarly traditions, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine will now be the first book that I recommend to students for orientation about the early history of Eurasian medical exchange. Informationen zum Autor Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is Reader in History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of Rashid al-Din: Agent and mediator of cultural exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (2013), Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (2010) and Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (2008).This book provides a history of Eurasian medical encounters that focuses on transmission networks and integration processes. Zusammenfassung It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world – Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz – the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent.This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsTransliterations and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Medical Encounters along the Silk Roads1. Narrating Eurasian Origins of Medical Knowledge2. Of Dice and Medicine: Interactions in Central Asian ‘Contact Zones’3. Myrobalans: The Making of a Eurasian Panacea4. Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang: Practices and Images on the Move5. Medicine of the Bakhshis: Cross-Pollinations in Buddhist IranAfterwordBibliographyIndex
