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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... reported on Chinese traditions. This perspective includes the medicalizing of the Chinese. This book is not a history of Chinese medicine (for overviews of that history, see Hinrichs 1998; Sivin 1998, 1988; and Hart 1999). It is in ...
... reported on Chinese traditions. This perspective includes the medicalizing of the Chinese. This book is not a history of Chinese medicine (for overviews of that history, see Hinrichs 1998; Sivin 1998, 1988; and Hart 1999). It is in ...
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... reported on their encounters with Chinese bodies. One aspect of this process in- volved the insertion of the Chinese into constructions of the mon- strous and the pathological. The Chinese also had a history of “record- ing the strange ...
... reported on their encounters with Chinese bodies. One aspect of this process in- volved the insertion of the Chinese into constructions of the mon- strous and the pathological. The Chinese also had a history of “record- ing the strange ...
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... reported to be pitiless toward those who re- sisted . When his son - in - law was killed at Nishapur , the town was laid waste “ in such a manner that . . . not even cats and dogs should be left alive ” ( Boyle 1969–1970 , 9 ) ...
... reported to be pitiless toward those who re- sisted . When his son - in - law was killed at Nishapur , the town was laid waste “ in such a manner that . . . not even cats and dogs should be left alive ” ( Boyle 1969–1970 , 9 ) ...
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18051848 | 212 |
Conclusion | 348 |
Notes | 355 |
Abbreviations | 369 |
Bibliography | 374 |
Index | 437 |
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