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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... , Specimen medicinae sinicae, 1682 97 11. Medicinal plants. Fr. Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, The General History of China, 1736 102 12. A mountain god. Athanasius Kircher, China monumentis illustrata, 1667 List of Illustrations.
... , Specimen medicinae sinicae, 1682 97 11. Medicinal plants. Fr. Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, The General History of China, 1736 102 12. A mountain god. Athanasius Kircher, China monumentis illustrata, 1667 List of Illustrations.
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... plant and animal matter had a humoral complexion, then one could ingest that humoral dimension in an herbal formula or food. European physicians classified foods according to humoral properties. Anglicus, for example, judged how things ...
... plant and animal matter had a humoral complexion, then one could ingest that humoral dimension in an herbal formula or food. European physicians classified foods according to humoral properties. Anglicus, for example, judged how things ...
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... plants that could take on magical properties and corresponding therapeutic attributes, and was worn as an amulet (Siraisi 1990). Herman of Sancto Portu suggested carrying it as protec- tion from venomous beasts (Stannard 1999). William ...
... plants that could take on magical properties and corresponding therapeutic attributes, and was worn as an amulet (Siraisi 1990). Herman of Sancto Portu suggested carrying it as protec- tion from venomous beasts (Stannard 1999). William ...
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16601736 | 72 |
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18051848 | 212 |
Conclusion | 348 |
Notes | 355 |
Abbreviations | 369 |
Bibliography | 374 |
Index | 437 |
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