[PDF.98va] Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848

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 | #5522248 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2005-12-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.16 x6.42 x9.50l,1.78 | File type: PDF | 480 pages

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||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Carefully researched and well written. Intriguing view of early encounters between two major paradigms in medical history.|By Quadradox|This is a scholarly work, very organized and documented. It offers a unique perspective on the early period of Chinese and Western encounters with respect to the healing arts. It is not difficult reading, but because of the density of inform| |[A] fascinating account of how China, the Chinese, and Chinese healing practices were imagined in the West from the late Middle Ages through to the mid-nineteenth century. [Barnes] has written a lively and compelling account that demonstrates that Chinese trad

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 unfamilia...

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