Huang Di nei jing su wen [[electronic resource] ] : nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text, with an appendix, The doctrine of the five periods and six qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wen / / Paul U. Unschuld

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455591903321
• Autore: Unschuld Paul U (Paul Ulrich), <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003
• ISBN: 1-282-75907-8; 9786612759079; 0-520-92849-0; 1-59734-665-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (534 p.)
• Disciplina: 610/.951
• Soggetti: Medicine, Chinese; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-502) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Prefatory Remarks -- I. Bibliographic History of the Su wen -- II. The Meaning of the Title Huang Di nei jing su wen -- III. Early Su wen Texts and Commentaries before the Eleventh Century -- IV. Origin and Tradition of the Textus Receptus of the Su wen -- V. A Survey of the Contents of the Su wen -- VI. Epilogue: Toward a Comparative Historical Anthropology of Medical Thought -- Notes -- Appendix. The Doctrine of the Five Periods and Six Qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wen -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and intellectual past. Unschuld traces the history of the Su wen to its origins in the final centuries B.C.E., when numerous authors wrote short medical essays to explain the foundations of human health and illness on the basis of the newly developed vessel theory. He examines the meaning of the title and the way the work has ; been received throughout Chinese medical history, both before and after the eleventh century when the text as it is known today emerged. Unschuld's survey of the contents includes illuminating discussions of the yin-yang and five-agents doctrines, the perception of the human body and its organs, qi and blood, pathogenic agents, concepts of disease and diagnosis, and a variety of therapies, including the new technique of acupuncture. An extensive appendix, furthermore, offers a detailed introduction to the complicated climatological theories of Wu yun liu qi ("five periods and six qi"), which were added to the Su wen by Wang Bing in the Tang era. In an epilogue, Unschuld writes about the break with tradition and innovative style of thought represented by the Su wen. For the first time, health care took the form of "medicine," in that it focused on environmental conditions, climatic agents, and behavior as causal in the emergence of disease and on the importance of natural laws in explaining illness. Unschuld points out that much of what we surmise about the human organism is simply a projection, reflecting dominant values and social goals, and he constructs a hypothesis to explain the formation and acceptance of basic notions of health and disease in a given society. Reading the Su wen, he says, not only offers a better understanding of the roots of Chinese medicine as an integrated aspect of Chinese civilization; it also provides a much needed starting point for discussions of the differences and parallels between European and Chinese ways of dealing with illness and the risk of early death.

The Transition : Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910860884603321
• Autore: Kiel Daniel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Grand Rapids : , : Stanford University Press, , 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 9781503635661; 9781503630659
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 pages)
• Disciplina: 347.73/2634
• Soggetti: LAW / Civil Rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Race, Schools, and the Justices of the Supreme Court -- PART I. Becoming Justices -- PART II. Integration -- PART III. Individuals and Government -- PART IV. Diversity -- Conclusion: The Rule of Law -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous. Not only did it shift the ideological balance on the Court; it was inextricably entangled with the persistent American dilemma of race. In The Transition, this most significant transition is explored through the lives and writings of the first two African American justices on Court, touching on the lasting consequences for understandings of American citizenship as well as the central currents of Black political thought over the past century. In their lives, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas experienced the challenge of living and learning in a world that had enslaved their relatives and that continued to subjugate members of their racial group. On the Court, their judicial writings—often in concurrences or dissents—richly illustrate the ways in which these two individuals embodied these crucial American (and African American) debates—on the balance between state and federal authority, on the government's ; responsibility to protect its citizens against discrimination, and on the best strategies for pursuing justice. The gap between Justices Marshall and Thomas on these questions cannot be overstated, and it reveals an extraordinary range of thought that has yet to be fully appreciated. The 1991 transition from Justice Marshall to Justice Thomas has had consequences that are still unfolding at the Court and in society. Arguing that the importance of this transition has been obscured by the relegation of these Justices to the sidelines of Supreme Court history, Daniel Kiel shows that it is their unique perspective as Black justices – the lives they have lived as African Americans and the rooting of their judicial philosophies in the relationship of government to African Americans – that makes this succession echo across generations.