Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine - The Telling Touch

A study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, focusing on a biography of Chunyu Yi.

List of contents

Part I. Framing the Field: Introduction; The questions; Diagnosis and medicine in the warring states and early Han; Conceptions of the body in the warring states and early Han; Discussion; Part II. Shi Ji 105.2 - The Memoir of Chunyu Yi: Outline of the memoir; Text structure semantics; Part III. Translation and Interpretation of Cases 1-10 in the Memoir of Chunyu Yi: Case 1; Case 2; Case 3; Case 4; Case 5; Case 6; Case 7; Case 8; Case 9; Case 10; Discussion; Part IV. Appendices.

About the author

Elisabeth Hsu is Reader in Social Anthropology and Fellow of Green College, and convenor of the M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Previous publications include The Transmission of Chinese Medicine (Cambridge, 1999) and Innovation in Chinese Medicine (Cambridge, 2001).

Summary

This is a study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, or more accurately, the examination of mai. Dr Hsu focuses on a biography of Chunyu Yi, a doctor of the early Han, and presents the first complete translation into English of the Memoir by Sima Qian.

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Hsu, Elisabeth (University of Oxford) Hsu, Hsu Elisabeth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108468633
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46863-3
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications; University of Cambridge Orient; University of Cambridge Oriental Publications; University of Cambridge Orient
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Alternative & Complementary Medicine, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, complementary medicine, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies