UID:
almahu_9949702334502882
Umfang:
1 online resource (2838 pages)
ISBN:
9789004229099
Serie:
Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series
Inhalt:
Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary material /
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Introductory Essay: 1. Chinese medical manuscripts /
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2. General characteristics of the Chinese medical manuscripts in the Berlin collections /
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3. Recipe collections /
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4. Major groups of authors /
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5. Further groups of authors and their manuscripts /
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6. Non-medical contents in the manuscripts /
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7. Finding the sources and dates of Chinese medical manuscripts /
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8. Conclusion /
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Sample pages of manuscripts /
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English index /
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Chinese pinyin index /
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Index of Chinese recipe names /
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Volume Two: Survey of manuscripts 8001-8449 /
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Volume Three: Survey of manuscripts 8450-48963 /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Unschuld, Paul Chinese Traditional Healing (3 vols) : The Berlin Collections of Manuscript Volumes from the 16th through the Early 20th Century Leiden : BRILL,c2012 ISBN 9789004225251
Sprache:
Englisch
