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Format: Online-Ressource (480 p)

ISBN: 9780674023970

Content: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 First Impressions: Until 1491 -- 2 A New Wave of Europeans: 1492-1659 -- 3 Model State, Medical Men, and "Mechanick Principles":1660-1736 -- 4 Sinophiles, Sinophobes, and the Cult of Chinoiserie:1737-1804 -- 5 Memory, History, and Imagination: 1805-1848 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674020542

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674023970

Additional Edition: Print version Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts : China, Healing, and the West To 1848

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press, 2005. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9780674020542

Content: When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Acknowledgments -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Introduction -- , CHAPTER 1. First Impressions: Until 1491 -- , CHAPTER 2. A New Wave of Europeans: 1492–1659 -- , CHAPTER 3. Model State, Medical Men, and "Mechanick Principles": 1660–1736 -- , CHAPTER 4. Sinophiles, Sinophobes, and the Cult of Chinoiserie: 1737–1804 -- , CHAPTER 5. Memory, History, and Imagination: 1805–1848 -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Abbreviations -- , Bibliography -- , Index. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674020542

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674020542

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Format: 1 online resource (480 p. ) , ill.

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-674-26191-7 , 0-674-02054-5

Content: When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970's. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.

Note: Originally published: 2005. , Front matter -- , Acknowledgments -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Introduction -- , CHAPTER 1. First Impressions: Until 1491 -- , CHAPTER 2. A New Wave of Europeans: 1492-1659 -- , CHAPTER 3. Model State, Medical Men, and "Mechanick Principles": 1660-1736 -- , CHAPTER 4. Sinophiles, Sinophobes, and the Cult of Chinoiserie: 1737-1804 -- , CHAPTER 5. Memory, History, and Imagination: 1805-1848 -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Abbreviations -- , Bibliography -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-02397-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674020542