The Expressiveness Of The Body And The Divergence Of Greek And Chinese Medicine
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The Expressiveness Of The Body And The Divergence Of Greek And Chinese Medicine
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Author : Shigehisa Kuriyama
language : en
Publisher: Zone Books (NY)
Release Date : 1999
The Expressiveness Of The Body And The Divergence Of Greek And Chinese Medicine written by Shigehisa Kuriyama and has been published by Zone Books (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Kuriyama offers a meditation on the human body as described by the classical Greeks and the ancient Chinese. 25 illustrations.
The Expressiveness Of The Body And The Divergence Of Greek And Chinese Medicine
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Author : Shigehisa Kuriyama
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-17
The Expressiveness Of The Body And The Divergence Of Greek And Chinese Medicine written by Shigehisa Kuriyama and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with History categories.
An illuminating account of how early medicine in Greece and China perceived the human body Winner of the William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so? In this book, Shigehisa Kuriyama explores this fundamental question, elucidating the fascinating contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. Revealing how perceptions of the body and conceptions of personhood are intimately linked, his comparative inquiry invites us, indeed compels us, to reassess our own habits of feeling and perceiving.
The Expressiveness Of The Body And The Divergence Of Greek And Chinese Medicine
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Author : Shigehisa Kuriyama
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Expressiveness Of The Body And The Divergence Of Greek And Chinese Medicine written by Shigehisa Kuriyama and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Greek Medicine
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Author : James Longrigg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-21
Greek Medicine written by James Longrigg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with History categories.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Translation At Work
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Author : Harold John Cook
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2020
Translation At Work written by Harold John Cook and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Communication in medicine categories.
Medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the activities of other places through processes of alteration once known as translatio. Recognition of differences provoked creative responses in Japan, the imperial court, and Enlightenment Europe.
Neither Donkey Nor Horse
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Author : Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-09-09
Neither Donkey Nor Horse written by Sean Hsiang-lin Lei and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-09 with History categories.
Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China’s exploration of its own modernity half a century later. Instead of viewing this transition as derivative of the political history of modern China, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei argues that China’s medical history had a life of its own, one that at times directly influenced the ideological struggle over the meaning of China’s modernity and the Chinese state. Far from being a remnant of China’s premodern past, Chinese medicine in the twentieth century coevolved with Western medicine and the Nationalist state, undergoing a profound transformation—institutionally, epistemologically, and materially—that resulted in the creation of a modern Chinese medicine. This new medicine was derided as “neither donkey nor horse” because it necessarily betrayed both of the parental traditions and therefore was doomed to fail. Yet this hybrid medicine survived, through self-innovation and negotiation, thus challenging the conception of modernity that rejected the possibility of productive crossbreeding between the modern and the traditional. By exploring the production of modern Chinese medicine and China’s modernity in tandem, Lei offers both a political history of medicine and a medical history of the Chinese state.
Knowledge And Context In Tibetan Medicine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-06-17
Knowledge And Context In Tibetan Medicine written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with Medical categories.
Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of essays dedicated to the description and interpretation of Tibetan medical knowledge across different historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts.
In The Grip Of Disease
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Author : G. E. R. Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2003-03-06
In The Grip Of Disease written by G. E. R. Lloyd and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-06 with History categories.
This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, G. E. R. Lloyd offers the first comprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination.
Body And Emotion
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Author : Robert R. Desjarlais
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-09-16
Body And Emotion written by Robert R. Desjarlais and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-16 with Social Science categories.
Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal.
The Way And The Word
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Author : Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
The Way And The Word written by Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Science categories.
The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication-each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this engrossing book, two world-renowned scholars compare the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200, casting new light not only on the two civilizations but also on the evolving character of science. Sir Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin investigate the differences between the thinkers in the two civilizations: what motivated them, how they understood the cosmos and the human body, how they were educated, how they made a living, and whom they argued with and why. The authors' new method integrally compares social, political, and intellectual patterns and connections, demonstrating how all affected and were affected by ideas about cosmology and the physical world. They relate conceptual differences in China and Greece to the diverse ways that intellectuals in the two civilizations earned their living, interacted with fellow inquirers, and were involved with structures of authority. By A.D. 200 the distinctive scientific strengths of both China and Greece showed equal potential for theory and practice. Lloyd and Sivin argue that modern science evolved not out of the Greek tradition alone but from the strengths of China, Greece, India, Islam, and other civilizations, which converged first in the Muslim world and then in Renaissance Europe.