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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... religion , Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine , religion , race , and the body informed Westerners ' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions . LINDA L. BARNES Needles , Herbs , Gods , and.
... religion and healing . Ted Kaptchuk's historical eye provided valuable insights . Tu Wei - ming taught me about Chinese religions . TJ Hinrichs provided much of what I know about the history of Chinese medicine . I thank an earlier ...
... religious system , and the influence of both on methods of studying re- ligion , generated attempts to identify distinct religious and doctrinal systems in China . Chinese religion was frequently represented as con- sisting of three ...
... religious studies . In China , healing practices grew from the same roots and paradigms as other versions of Chinese ... religion , this notion of " healing practices " draws in not only acupuncture and herbs , but also therapeutic ...
... emissaries to investigate potential consequences for Europe from thirteenth - century Mongol expansion . These religious delegates , along with several other report- ers , produced some of the earliest narratives with details Introduction ...
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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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