03093nam 2200697Ia 450 991077816960332120230616235409.00-674-26191-70-674-02054-510.4159/9780674020542(CKB)1000000000786922(StDuBDS)AH23050586(SSID)ssj0000209060(PQKBManifestationID)11201275(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000209060(PQKBWorkID)10265779(PQKB)11601694(MiAaPQ)EBC3300461(DE-B1597)457548(OCoLC)1013946979(OCoLC)1029815924(OCoLC)1032686975(OCoLC)1037982438(OCoLC)1042020489(OCoLC)1046607196(OCoLC)1047321319(OCoLC)646814830(OCoLC)979721321(OCoLC)999378621(DE-B1597)9780674020542(Au-PeEL)EBL3300461(CaPaEBR)ebr10318454(OCoLC)923111542(EXLCZ)99100000000078692220050602d2005 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrNeedles, herbs, gods, and ghosts[electronic resource] China, healing, and the West to 1848 /Linda L. BarnesCambridge, MA Harvard University Press20051 online resource (480 p. )illOriginally published: 2005.0-674-02397-8 Includes bibliographcial references (p. 374-436) and index.Front matter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Illustrations --Introduction --CHAPTER 1. First Impressions: Until 1491 --CHAPTER 2. A New Wave of Europeans: 1492-1659 --CHAPTER 3. Model State, Medical Men, and "Mechanick Principles": 1660-1736 --CHAPTER 4. Sinophiles, Sinophobes, and the Cult of Chinoiserie: 1737-1804 --CHAPTER 5. Memory, History, and Imagination: 1805-1848 --Conclusion --Notes --Abbreviations --Bibliography --IndexWhen did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970's. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.Medicine, ChinesePopular worksMedicineAsiaHistoryMedicine, ChineseMedicineHistory.610.951Barnes Linda L903448MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778169603321Needles, herbs, gods, and ghosts3718338UNINA