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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (475 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020542
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Needles, Herbs, Gods, and GhostsDDC classification:
  • 610/.951
LOC classification:
  • R601
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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