Needles Herbs Gods and Ghosts China Healing and the West to 1848 1st Edition by Linda Barnes ISBN 0674020545 9780674020542

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ISBN 10: 0674020545

ISBN 13: 9780674020542

Author:  Linda L. Barnes 

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 1st Edition: When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the “rediscovery” of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. 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. As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts and practices of healing? Barnes traces this story through the mid-nineteenth century, in both Europe and, eventually, the United States. She has unearthed numerous examples of Western missionaries, merchants, diplomats, and physicians in China, Europe, and America encountering and interpreting both Chinese people and their healing practices, and sometimes adopting their own versions of these practices. 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. (20060809)

 

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. First Impressions: Until 1491

2. A New Wave of Europeans: 1492–1659

3. Model State, Medical Men, and “Mechanick Principles”:1660–1736

4. Sinophiles, Sinophobes, and the Cult of Chinoiserie:1737–1804

5. Memory, History, and Imagination: 1805–1848

 

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