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1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781474293495
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9781472512499
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9781350195820
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1472512499
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9781472512574
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9781472507181
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1472507185
Content:
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Transliterations and Abbreviations Introduction: Medical Encounters along the Silk Roads -- 1. Narrating Eurasian Origins of Medical Knowledge -- 2. Of Dice and Medicine: Interactions in Central Asian 'Contact Zones' -- 3. Myrobalans: The Making of a Eurasian Panacea -- 4. Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang: Practices and Images on the Move -- 5. Medicine of the Bakhshis: Cross-Pollinations in Buddhist Iran Afterword Bibliography Index
Content:
"ReOrienting Histories of Medicine takes a cross-cultural approach that provides a re-appraisal of the 'globalized' character of early medicine. It re-orients medical history, and emphasizes the role of the transmission of medical ideas and practices between European and Asian cultures. Using original research taken from the medical findings of Dunhuang, Turpan and Cairo Genizah, this book contextualizes the history of Euro-Asian medical encounters, from Greco-Indic early contacts to the present adoptions of mindfulness in psychotherapy"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472512574
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit Reorienting histories of medicine England ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781474293495
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