Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848Harvard University Press, 15 dic 2005 - 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. |
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... John Carman remains the staunchest supporter of the integrative study of religion and healing . Ted Kaptchuk's historical eye provided valuable insights . Tu Wei - ming taught me about Chinese religions . TJ Hinrichs provided much of ...
... John Barrow , Travels in China , 1804 139 15. Wang - y - tong . Sir Joshua Reynolds , ca. 1776 144 16. Meridian drawing . Willem ten Rhijne , in François Dujardin , Histoire de la chirurgie , 1774 153 17. Surgical methods . Lorenz ...
... John Bell ob- served : " In the cliffs of the rocks you see little scattered cottages , with spots of cultivated ground , much resembling those romantick figures of landskips which are painted on the China - ware and other manufac ...
... providing subtexts to some re- sponses to Chinese healing . Western perceptions of the Chinese were not uniform . John James Clarke ( 1997 ) suggests that Orientalism consisted of " 2 NEEDLES , HERBS , GODS , AND GHOSTS.
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First Impressions Until 1491 | 8 |
A New Wave of Europeans 14921659 | 36 |
Model State Medical Men and Mechanick Principles 16601736 | 72 |
Sinophiles Sinophobes and the Cult of Chinoiserie 17371804 | 126 |
Memory History and Imagination 18051848 | 212 |
Conclusion | 348 |
Notes | 355 |
Abbreviations | 369 |
Bibliography | 374 |
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