Chinese Medicine and Healing

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...

(展开全部)

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.

TJ Hinrichs is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University.

Linda L. Barnes is Director of the Masters Program in Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at Boston University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at BUSM, and in the Division of Religious and Th...

(展开全部)

TJ Hinrichs is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University.

Linda L. Barnes is Director of the Masters Program in Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at Boston University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at BUSM, and in the Division of Religious and Theological Studies at Boston University.

Introduction • Linda Barnes and TJ Hinrichs
1. The Pre-Han Period • Constance A. Cook
Oracle Bones of the Late Shang Dynasty (ca. Thirteenth–Eleventh Centuries B.C.E.) • Ken Takashima
The Dreams of the Lord of Jin • Constance A. Cook
The Hexagram Gu • Xing Wen
2. The Han Period • Vivienne Lo
· · · · · · (更多)

Introduction • Linda Barnes and TJ Hinrichs
1. The Pre-Han Period • Constance A. Cook
Oracle Bones of the Late Shang Dynasty (ca. Thirteenth–Eleventh Centuries B.C.E.) • Ken Takashima
The Dreams of the Lord of Jin • Constance A. Cook
The Hexagram Gu • Xing Wen
2. The Han Period • Vivienne Lo
The Treatment of Women • Lisa Raphals
A Late Han Adept • TJ Hinrichs
3. The Period of Division and the Tang Period • Fan Ka-wai
Shamans • Lin Fu-shih
Prerequisites for Treating Childlessness • Jessey J.C. Choo
Nurturing the Fetus • Sabine Wilms
Childbirth • Jen-der Lee
Ingestion of the Five Sprouts • Gil Raz
The Celestial Brigand and Illness • Donald Harper
Sun Simiao • Victor Xiong
4. The Song and Jin Periods • TJ Hinrichs
Plague God Cults • Paul R. Katz
Legendary Daoist Women • Catherine Despeux
Song Printed Medical Works and Medieval Japanese Medicine • Andrew Edmund Goble
5. The Yuan and Ming Periods • Angela Ki Che Leung
Arabic Medicine in China • Paul D. Buell
Tuêẹ Tĩnh—Vietnamese Monk–Physician at the Ming Court • Michele Thompson
A Chosǒn Korea Medical Synthesis: Hǒ Chun’s Precious Mirror of Eastern Medicine • Soyoung Suh
Medical Schools and the Temples of the Three Progenitors • Reiko Shinno
Children’s Medicine • Hsiung Ping-chen
Li Shizhen • Kenneth J. Hammond
Variolation • Chang Chia-Feng
6. The Qing Period • Yi-Li Wu
Fertility Control and Demographics • Francesca Bray
Female Alchemy • Elena Valussi
The Nineteenth-Century Bubonic Plague Epidemic • Carol Benedict
The Emperor’s Physician • Chang Che-chia
The Jianghu Performance of Medical and Martial Arts in Late Imperial Vernacular Fiction • Paize Keulemans
Eighteenth-Century European Views of Gongfu (Kungfu) • Linda L. Barnes
The “Warm Diseases” Current of Learning • Marta E. Hanson
7. The Republic of China • Bridie Andrews
Dissection in China • Larissa Heinrich
Neurasthenia (shenjing shuairuo) in China • Hugh Shapiro
Advertising Hygienic Modernity • Ruth Rogaski
8. The People’s Republic of China • Volker Scheid
Propaganda and Health • Stefan Landsberger
Folk Nutritional Therapy in Modern China • Eugene N. Anderson
Inventing Qigong • David Ownby
Chinese Medicine as Popular Knowledge in Urban China • Judith Farquhar
Seal Penis, Viagra, and Sexual Potency in Post-Mao China • Everett Zhang
Religious Healing in the People’s Republic of China • Thomas DuBois
SARS, Bird Flu, and Media Transparency in China • Hepeng Jia
9. A World of Chinese Medicine and Healing: Part One • Linda L. Barnes
Acupuncture in Argentina • Betina Freidin
Acupuncture in Germany • Gunnar Stollberg
Textuality and Truth in U.S. Chinese Medicine Education • Sonya Pritzker
Acupuncture in Iraq • Lazgeen Ahmad, MD (Interview by Douglas Newton)
Get on Track with Subhealth: Changing Trajectories of “Preventive Medicine” • Mei Zhan
Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trials and Chinese Medicine • Ted J. Kaptchuk
10. A World of Chinese Medicine and Healing: Part Two • Linda L. Barnes
Chinese Medicine in Africa • Elisabeth Hsu
“Trialing” Chinese Medicine in Colonial Australia • Rey Tiquia
TCM and Chinese Immigrants with Tuberculosis in New York City’s Chinatown: A Case Study • Ming Ho
Is Vietnamese Medicine Chinese Medicine? • Laurence Monnais
Visualizing Qi • Nancy N. Chen
Taiji in America • Elijah Siegler
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
· · · · · · (收起)