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Medicine and healing in ancient East Asia : a view from excavated texts / Constance A. Cook
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Cambridge elements. Elements in ancient East AsiaPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 Online-Ressource (75 pages)ISBN:- 9781108981170
- 9781108975834
- 610.95 23
- R581
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Summary: The Element focuses on the evolution of concepts, illness categories, and diagnostic and treatment methodologies evident in the newly discovered material and reveals a side of medical practice not reflected in the canonsPPN: PPN: 1916242928Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia: A View from Excavated Texts -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transmitted Medical Knowledge and the Creation of Canons -- Famous Men and Cosmic Medicine -- Materia medica, Magic, and Other Methods -- 3 Non-transmitted Texts: From the Twelfth Century BCE to the Eleventh Century CE -- Shang Bone Inscriptions: Ancestral Powers -- Zhou Bronze Inscriptions and Bamboo Manuscripts: The Rise of Qi -- Qin Bamboo Texts: Magic and Recipes -- Han Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts: Medical Literature As a Genre
Medieval Paper Texts: The Persistence of Magic -- 4 Conclusion -- Archaic Graphs -- Bibliography
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