Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia
A View from Excavated Texts
Series: Elements in Ancient East Asia;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 September 2023
- ISBN 9781108972208
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages80 pages
- Size 230x152x5 mm
- Weight 140 g
- Language English 491
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Short description:
This Element shows the newly discovered manuscripts that reveal ancient medical practices and beliefs edited out of canonical literature.
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This Element first discusses the creation of transmitted medical canons that are generally dated from early imperial times through the medieval era and then, by way of contrast, provides translations and analyses of non-transmitted texts from the pre-imperial late Shang and Zhou eras, the early imperial Qin and Han eras, and then a brief discussion covering the period through the 11th-c. CE. The Element focuses on the evolution of concepts, illness categories, and diagnostic and treatment methodologies evident in the newly discovered material and reveals a side of medical practice not reflected in the canons. It is both traditions of healing, the canons and the currents of local practice revealed by these texts, that influenced the development of East Asian medicine more broadly. The local practices show there was no real evolution from magical to non-magical medicine. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
'Cook's book covers a long period of Chinese medical history, but a particularly important topic is how medicine originated in ancient China. This question has never been easy to answer, but Cook's analysis identifies newly discovered texts that open up fresh avenues in which to do so.' Chen Hao, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Transmitted medical knowledge and the creation of canons; 3. Non-transmitted texts: from 12th-c. BCE to 10th-c. CE; 4. Conclusion; References.
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