Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts - China, Healing, and the West to 1848

Informationen zum Autor Linda L. Barnes is Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Family Medicine! Boston University School of Medicine! and Visiting Lecturer in Social Medicine! Harvard Medical School. Klappentext When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles! Herbs! Gods! and Ghosts! Linda Barnes leads us back! instead! to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. Zusammenfassung When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the “rediscovery” of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction 1. First Impressions: Until 1491 2. A New Wave of Europeans: 1492-1659 3. Model State! Medical Men! and "Mechanick Principles": 1660-1736 4. Sinophiles! Sinophobes! and the Cult of Chinoiserie: 1737-1804 5. Memory! History! and Imagination: 1805-1848 Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Linda L. Barnes, Barnes Linda L.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2007
• EAN: 9780674023970
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02397-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; History, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, History of Medicine, complementary medicine