Chinese Traditional Healing - Continued: A Survey of Manuscripts 8840 to 8960 of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
May 2025 · BRILL
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Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends.
This is a sequel to an earlier survey of 900 volumes, introducing another 121 volumes now held in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
This is a sequel to an earlier survey of 900 volumes, introducing another 121 volumes now held in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of da...
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Paul U. Unschuld, Dr. phil. (1971) in Sinology, Munich University, is Director of the Institute for Chinese Life Sciences, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He has published extensively on Chinese Medicine, including English translations of major Chinese medical classics from antiquity through the imperial age.
Paul U. Unschuld, Dr. phil. (1971) in Sinology, Munich University, is Director of the Institute for Chinese Life Sciences, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He has published extensively on Chinese Medicine, including English translations of major Chinese medical classics from antiquity through ...
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