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Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts
Linda L. BARNES
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China, Healing, and the West to 1848
出版Harvard University Press, 2009-06-30
主題History / Asia / ChinaMedical / HistorySocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural
ISBN06740205459780674020542
URLhttp://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.