Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine 1st Edition Hardcover by Vivienne Lo

Description

Author: Lo Vivienne

Brand: Routledge

Edition: 1

Format: Illustrated

Package Dimensions: 0x248x788

Number Of Pages: 872

Release Date: 13-12-2021

Details: Product Description

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the globalisation of Chinese products and practices in the present day, taking in subjects from ancient medical writings to therapeutic movement, to talismans for healing and traditional medicines that have inspired global solutions to contemporary epidemics. The volume is divided into seven parts:

Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions

Sickness and Healing

Food and Sex

Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices

The World of Sinographic Medicine

Wider Diasporas

Negotiating Modernity

This handbook therefore introduces the broad range of ideas and techniques that comprise pre-modern medicine in China, and the historiographical and ethnographic approaches that have illuminated them. It will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, and the history of medicine and anthropology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, patients, and specialists wishing to refresh their knowledge with the latest developments in the field.

About the Author

Vivienne Lo researches and lectures on the early and medieval history of Asian medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UK and is the convenor of the China Centre for Health and Humanity at UCL.
Michael Stanley-Baker researches the intersections between religious and medical practices in medieval China at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.  He is also a member of the Berlin Centre for the History of Knowledge, and serves as treasurer of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine.