Chinese Medicine and Healing is a comprehensive introduction to a rich array of Chinese healing practices as they have developed through time and across cultures. Contributions from fifty-eight leading international scholars in such fields as Chinese archaeology, history, anthropology, religion, and medicine make this a collaborative work of uncommon intellectual synergy, and a vital new resource for anyone working in East Asian or world history, in medical history and anthropology, and in biomedicine and complementary healing arts.

This illustrated history explores the emergence and development of a wide range of health interventions, including propitiation of disease-inflicting spirits, divination, vitality-cultivating meditative disciplines, herbal remedies, pulse diagnosis, and acupuncture. The authors investigate processes that contribute to historical change, such as competition between different types of practitioner—shamans, Daoist priests, Buddhist monks, scholar physicians, and even government officials. Accompanying vignettes and illustrations bring to life such diverse arenas of health care as childbirth in the Tang period, Yuan state-established medical schools, fertility control in the Qing, and the search for sexual potency in the People's Republic.

The two final chapters illustrate Chinese healing modalities across the globe and address the challenges they have posed as alternatives to biomedical standards of training and licensure. The discussion includes such far-reaching examples as Chinese treatments for diphtheria in colonial Australia and malaria in Africa, the invention of ear acupuncture by the French and its worldwide dissemination, and the varying applications of acupuncture from Germany to Argentina and Iraq.

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Publisher

Year

Print ISBN

eBook ISBN

Topic

Subtopic

Yue

Qi

Chu

Wu

Zheng

Song

Lu

Yan

Wei

Zhou

Jin

Qin

Mt.

Hua

Zhou 

Homeland

Shang

Western 

Zhou

Shang 

Capital

Shang 

Capital

Zhou 

Capital

Zhou 

Capital

Shang 

and

Western 

Zhou 

Periods

0

500

Km

0

500

Km

Chu

Yan

Wei

Qi

Qin

Han

Zhou

Zhao

Warring 

States

Qin

Western 

Zhou

Shang

Eastern 

Zhou

Spring 

Autumn

Spring 

and

Autumn 

Period, 

ca.

500

b.c.e. 

Zhou 

Royal 

Domain

and

Major 

Fiefs

Warring 

States, 

ca.

260

b.c.e.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Pre-Han Period
Chapter 2. The Han Period
Chapter 3. The Period of Division and the Tang Period
Chapter 4. The Song and Jin Periods
Chapter 5. The Yuan and Ming Periods
Chapter 6. The Qing Period
Chapter 7. The Republic of China
Chapter 8. The People’s Republic of China
Chapter 9. A World of Chinese Medicine and Healing: Part One
Chapter 10. A World of Chinese Medicine and Healing: Part Two
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

9781136172441,

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