Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848Harvard University Press, 30 jun 2009 - 458 páginas 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. As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts and practices of healing? Barnes traces this story through the mid-nineteenth century, in both Europe and, eventually, the United States. She has unearthed numerous examples of Western missionaries, merchants, diplomats, and physicians in China, Europe, and America encountering and interpreting both Chinese people and their healing practices, and sometimes adopting their own versions of these practices. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions. |
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... Journal, 1844 273 24. “Poor Hoo-Loo.” Lancet, April 16, 1831 292 25. Acupuncture and moxa. William Wallace, A Physiological Enquiry Respecting the Action of Moxa, 1827 301 26. The nine needles. George Tradescant Lay, The Chinese as They ...
... Journal, 1844 273 24. “Poor Hoo-Loo.” Lancet, April 16, 1831 292 25. Acupuncture and moxa. William Wallace, A Physiological Enquiry Respecting the Action of Moxa, 1827 301 26. The nine needles. George Tradescant Lay, The Chinese as They ...
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... Journal of Friar Wil- liam of Rubruck , 1253–1255 remained largely unknown . However , Fran- ciscan Roger Bacon ( 1214–1294 ) —physician and alchemist — incorpo- rated details into the geographical section of his own Opus majus ( ca ...
... Journal of Friar Wil- liam of Rubruck , 1253–1255 remained largely unknown . However , Fran- ciscan Roger Bacon ( 1214–1294 ) —physician and alchemist — incorpo- rated details into the geographical section of his own Opus majus ( ca ...
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14921659 | 36 |
16601736 | 72 |
17371804 | 126 |
18051848 | 212 |
Conclusion | 348 |
Notes | 355 |
Abbreviations | 369 |
Bibliography | 374 |
Index | 437 |
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