TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnes,Linda L.
TI  - Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West To 1848
SN  - 9780674020542
AV  - R601 
U1  - 610/.951 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Medicine, Chinese-Popular works
KW  - Medicine-Asia-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. First Impressions: Until 1491 -- 2. A New Wave of Europeans: 1492-1659 -- 3. Model State, Medical Men, and "Mechanick Principles":1660-1736 -- 4. Sinophiles, Sinophobes, and the Cult of Chinoiserie:1737-1804 -- 5. Memory, History, and Imagination: 1805-1848 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
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ER  -