The Art of Medicine in Early China

The Art of Medicine in Early China
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781316300572
ISBN-13 : 1316300579
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Download or read book The Art of Medicine in Early China written by Miranda Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206 BC–AD 220) and Song (960–1279) dynasties to the twentieth century, Brown traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the gradual emergence of the archive of medical tradition. She exposes the historical circumstances that shaped the current image of medical progenitors: the ancient bibliographers, medieval editors, and modern reformers and defenders of Chinese medicine who contributed to the contemporary shape of the archive. Brown demonstrates how ancient and medieval ways of knowing live on in popular narratives of medical history, both in modern Asia and in the West. She also reveals the surprising and often unacknowledged debt that contemporary scholars owe to their pre-modern forebears for the categories, frameworks, and analytic tools with which to study the distant past.


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