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Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts
Linda L. BARNES
其他書名
China, Healing, and the West to 1848
出版
Harvard University Press
, 2009-06-30
主題
History / Asia / China
Medical / History
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
ISBN
0674020545
9780674020542
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=9goVmFL0ZGwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.