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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... included TJ Hinrichs, Bridie Andrews, Eric Jacobson, and Cathy Kerr. I also thank my project man- ager, Justine de Marrais, for all her backup support. Jack Eckert of the Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library and ...
... included TJ Hinrichs, Bridie Andrews, Eric Jacobson, and Cathy Kerr. I also thank my project man- ager, Justine de Marrais, for all her backup support. Jack Eckert of the Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library and ...
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... at- tempts at definition in mind , I have included practices that might not seem relevant to readers familiar with Western concepts of “ religion . ” My task is to address the connection of these practices Introduction 3.
... at- tempts at definition in mind , I have included practices that might not seem relevant to readers familiar with Western concepts of “ religion . ” My task is to address the connection of these practices Introduction 3.
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... included discussions of many dimensions of Chinese healing . Chapter 4 addresses the period 1737 through 1804 , closing with the publication of John Barrow's Travels in China — one of the last major sources resulting from the embassy of ...
... included discussions of many dimensions of Chinese healing . Chapter 4 addresses the period 1737 through 1804 , closing with the publication of John Barrow's Travels in China — one of the last major sources resulting from the embassy of ...
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... included medicinals from Southeast Asia , India , Africa , and China ( Conrad 1995 ) . Constantinus the African ( ca. 1020–1087 ) , a Tunisian Christian monk in southern Italy , translated Galen , the Isagoge , and Arabic medical ...
... included medicinals from Southeast Asia , India , Africa , and China ( Conrad 1995 ) . Constantinus the African ( ca. 1020–1087 ) , a Tunisian Christian monk in southern Italy , translated Galen , the Isagoge , and Arabic medical ...
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... included assessing the pulse, which was less associated with the heart and blood than with innate heat—an aspect of blood as a humor. Pulse changed over one's lifetime, playing out in musical rhythms and slowing with age. Humans ...
... included assessing the pulse, which was less associated with the heart and blood than with innate heat—an aspect of blood as a humor. Pulse changed over one's lifetime, playing out in musical rhythms and slowing with age. Humans ...
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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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Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 Linda L. Barnes Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 Linda L. Barnes Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
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