Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts : China, Healing, and the West to 1848
Linda L. Barnes
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. 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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Tahun:
2009
Penerbit:
Harvard University Press
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
476
ISBN 10:
0674018729
ISBN 13:
9780674018723
Fail:
PDF, 7.66 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009