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新書預告Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History [Hardcover]

Hardcover: 480 pages

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press (January
7, 2013)

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TJ Hinrichs
(Editor), Linda L. Barnes
(Editor)

Constance A. Cook
(Contributor), Wen Xing
(Contributor), Vivienne Lo
(Contributor), Lisa Raphals
(Contributor), Ge Hong
(Contributor), Fan Ka-wai
(Contributor), Fu-shih Lin
(Contributor), Jessey J.C. Choo
(Contributor), Sabine Wilms
(Contributor), Jen-der Lee
(Contributor), Gil Raz
(Contributor), Donald Harper
(Contributor), Victor Xiong
(Contributor), Paul R. Katz
(Contributor), Catherine Despeux
(Contributor), Andrew Edmund
Goble (Contributor), Angela Ki-che
Leung (Contributor), Paul D. Buell
(Contributor), Michele Thompson
(Contributor), Soyoung Suh
(Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 7, 2013

Chinese Medicine and Healing is a comprehensive introduction to a
rich array of Chinese healing practices as they have developed through time and
across cultures. Contributions from fifty-eight leading international scholars
in such fields as Chinese archaeology, history, anthropology, religion, and
medicine make this a collaborative work of uncommon intellectual synergy, and a
vital new resource for anyone working in East Asian or world history, in
medical history and anthropology, and in biomedicine and complementary healing
arts.

This illustrated history explores the emergence and development of
a wide range of health interventions, including propitiation of
disease-inflicting spirits, divination, vitality-cultivating meditative
disciplines, herbal remedies, pulse diagnosis, and acupuncture. The authors
investigate processes that contribute to historical change, such as competition
between different types of practitioner—shamans, Daoist priests, Buddhist
monks, scholar physicians, and even government officials. Accompanying
vignettes and illustrations bring to life such diverse arenas of health care as
childbirth in the Tang period, Yuan state-established medical schools,
fertility control in the Qing, and the search for sexual potency in the
People’s Republic.

The two final chapters illustrate Chinese healing modalities
across the globe and address the challenges they have posed as alternatives to
biomedical standards of training and licensure. The discussion includes such
far-reaching examples as Chinese treatments for diphtheria in colonial Australia and malaria in Africa, the invention
of ear acupuncture by the French and its worldwide dissemination, and the
varying applications of acupuncture from Germany
to Argentina and Iraq .

Editorial Reviews

Review

Hinrichs and Barnes have produced a large, ambitious, blockbusting
volume that provides both encyclopedic range and contextual historical detail.
The book is a great reference for a wide range of readers, including students,
scholars, clinicians, and anyone seeking to better understand a medicine that
is uniquely embedded in a civilization's specific cultural history.

--Charlotte Furth, Professor Emerita of Chinese History, University of Southern California

Very impressive! An extraordinarily broad and rich compendium, Hinrichs and
Barnes have orchestrated a vast collection of history and anthropological
observations of professional and popular practice which will be useful for the
expert and the general reader.

--Arthur Kleinman, Harvard
University

About the Author

TJ Hinrichs is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University .

Linda L. Barnes is Director of the Masters Program in Medical Anthropology and
Cross-Cultural Practice, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at Boston
University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment as Professor in
the Department of Family Medicine at BUSM, and in the Division of Religious and
Theological Studies at Boston
University .

Andrew Edmund Goble is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon .