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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... Pulse diagrams. Andreas Cleyer, 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 ...
... Pulse diagrams. Andreas Cleyer, 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 ...
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... pulse reading , and a spirit medium's trance . It spans longevity practices , pilgrimages , meritorious deeds to offset bad karma , and petitions to local gods . Medicalizing the Chinese I have avoided using the term medicine in ...
... pulse reading , and a spirit medium's trance . It spans longevity practices , pilgrimages , meritorious deeds to offset bad karma , and petitions to local gods . Medicalizing the Chinese I have avoided using the term medicine in ...
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... pulse theory , acupuncture , and moxibustion . Sec- ond , growing numbers of writers in Europe who had never gone to China wrote about Chinese practices , based on sources sent by firsthand observers . Chapter 3 ends with one of the ...
... pulse theory , acupuncture , and moxibustion . Sec- ond , growing numbers of writers in Europe who had never gone to China wrote about Chinese practices , based on sources sent by firsthand observers . Chapter 3 ends with one of the ...
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... pulse ; on the other hand , they do not use urinals nor know anything about urine ; I saw this myself , for there were many of them in Karakorum ” ( Dawson 1955 , 144 ) . But what might his frame of reference been ? In Europe , Claudius ...
... pulse ; on the other hand , they do not use urinals nor know anything about urine ; I saw this myself , for there were many of them in Karakorum ” ( Dawson 1955 , 144 ) . But what might his frame of reference been ? In Europe , Claudius ...
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... pulses , and breathing . Galen called it pneuma ( Latin , spiritus ) . Pneuma / spiritus was inborn , its essence an innate heat . Although in- born , pneuma / spiritus required nurturing , deriving sustenance from " digesting ” air ...
... pulses , and breathing . Galen called it pneuma ( Latin , spiritus ) . Pneuma / spiritus was inborn , its essence an innate heat . Although in- born , pneuma / spiritus required nurturing , deriving sustenance from " digesting ” air ...
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14921659 | 36 |
16601736 | 72 |
17371804 | 126 |
18051848 | 212 |
Conclusion | 348 |
Notes | 355 |
Abbreviations | 369 |
Bibliography | 374 |
Index | 437 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
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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