Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea - The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology

Summary

This is a translation into English of the complete "Yin-Hai Jing-Wei", a classic 15th-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. This work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in pre-modern China.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jürgen Kovacs (Translation), Paul U. Unschuld (Translation), Unschuld Paul U. (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1999
• EAN: 9780520080584
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08058-4
• No. of pages: 525
• Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; China, History of Ideas, MEDICAL / Ophthalmology, HISTORY / Social History, Ophthalmology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, MEDICAL / Essays, Literary essays