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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... Western observers struggled to understand Chinese readings of the body , represented in diagrams that looked nothing like Western anatomical drawings . Responses to Chinese healing were repeatedly shaped by Western anatomical models and ...
... Western authors of detailed studies of Chinese 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 ...
... Western observations of Chinese healing practices a far more systematic presentation than was available at their time . Beyond their explicit citations of earlier works , we cannot always be certain what knowledge specific individuals ...
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Índice
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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