Format:
1 Online-Ressource (2838 pages)
ISBN:
9789004229099
Series Statement:
Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series volume 10
Content:
Preliminary material /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- Introductory Essay: 1. Chinese medical manuscripts /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- 2. General characteristics of the Chinese medical manuscripts in the Berlin collections /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- 3. Recipe collections /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- 4. Major groups of authors /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- 5. Further groups of authors and their manuscripts /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- 6. Non-medical contents in the manuscripts /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- 7. Finding the sources and dates of Chinese medical manuscripts /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- 8. Conclusion /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- Sample pages of manuscripts /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- English index /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- Chinese pinyin index /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- Index of Chinese recipe names /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- Volume Two: Survey of manuscripts 8001–8449 /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng -- Volume Three: Survey of manuscripts 8450–48963 /Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng.
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004225251
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Unschuld, Paul U., 1943 - Chinese traditional healing Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2012 ISBN 9789004225251
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004225250
Language:
English
Keywords:
Deutschland
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Bibliografie
DOI:
10.1163/9789004229099
Author information:
Unschuld, Paul U. 1943-
