ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the globalisation of Chinese products and practices in the present day, taking in subjects from ancient medical writings to therapeutic movement, to talismans for healing and traditional medicines that have inspired global solutions to contemporary epidemics. The volume is divided into seven parts:
- Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions
- Sickness and Healing
- Food and Sex
- Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices
- The World of Sinographic Medicine
- Wider Diasporas
- Negotiating Modernity
This handbook therefore introduces the broad range of ideas and techniques that comprise pre-modern medicine in China, and the historiographical and ethnographic approaches that have illuminated them. It will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, and the history of medicine and anthropology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, patients and specialists wishing to refresh their knowledge with the latest developments in the field.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|149 pages
Longue Durée and formation of institutions and traditions
chapter 1|10 pages
Yin, yang, and five agents (wuxing) in the Basic Questions and early Han (202 BCE–220 CE) medical manuscripts
chapter 5|18 pages
The importance of numerology, part 2 medicine
part 2|139 pages
Sickness and healing
chapter 10|18 pages
Ancient pulse taking, complexions and the rise of tongue diagnosis in modern China
chapter 16|18 pages
Late imperial epidemiology, part 1
chapter 17|19 pages
Late imperial epidemiology, part 2
chapter 18|18 pages
Folk medicine of the Qing and Republican periods
part 3|98 pages
Food and sex
chapter 23|12 pages
Sexing the Chinese medical body
chapter 25|8 pages
The question of sex and modernity in China, part 1
chapter 26|10 pages
The question of sex and modernity in China, part 2
part 4|74 pages
Spiritual and orthodox religious practices
part 5|75 pages
The world of Sinographic medicine
part 6|74 pages
Wider diasporas
chapter 41|14 pages
The migration of acupuncture through the Imperium Hispanicum
chapter 42|14 pages
Long and winding roads
part 7|119 pages
Negotiating modernity