Chinese Traditional Healing (3 vols): The Berlin Collections of Manuscript Volumes from the 16th through the Early 20th Century
May 2014 · 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. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends.
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, is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz-Research Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences, Charité Universitäts-medizin Berlin.
Zheng Jinsheng, is Professor and former (1993-1997) Director of the Research Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.
Zheng Jinsheng, is Professor and former (1993-1997) Director of the Research Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Literature of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.
Paul U. Unschuld, is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz-Research Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences, Charité Universitäts-medizin Berlin.
Zheng Jinsheng, is Professor and former (1993-1997) Director of the Research Institute for the History of Medicine ...
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