UID:
almafu_9961673700902883
Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-4725-1249-9
,
1-4742-9349-2
,
1-4725-0718-5
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:
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.
,
Also published in print.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781474293495
