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1 online resource (3 volumes (xii, 2828 pages)) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series ; v. 10
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Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series ; v. 10.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
VOLUME ONE. Introductory essay -- 1. Chinese medical manuscripts -- 2. General characteristics of the Chinese medical manuscripts in the Berlin collections -- 3. Recipe collections -- 4. Major groups of authors -- 5. Further groups of authors and their manuscripts -- 6. Non-medical contents in the manuscripts -- 7. Finding the sources and dates of Chinese medical manuscripts -- 8. Conclusion -- VOLUME TWO. Survey of mss. 8001-8449 -- Survey of mss. 8450-48963 -- VOLUME THREE. Survey of mss. 8450-48963. |
| Summary |
Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Arbeitsstelle für Bibliothekstechnik.
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Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Arbeitsstelle für Bibliothekstechnik. |
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Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.
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Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. |
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Medicine, Chinese -- Manuscripts.
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Medicine, Chinese. |
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Manuscripts. |
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Spiritual healing -- Manuscripts.
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Spiritual healing. |
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Traditional medicine -- Manuscripts.
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Traditional medicine. |
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Manuscripts, Chinese.
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Manuscripts, Chinese. |
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Manuscripts, Medical as Topic. |
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional. |
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Libraries. |
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Museums. |
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Germany. |
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Bibliography.
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Electronic books.
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Manuscripts.
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| Added Author |
Zheng, Jinsheng, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- Chinese traditional healing. Leiden : Brill, 2012 9789004225251 (OCoLC)801636164 |
| ISBN |
9789004229099 (electronic book) |
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9004229094 (electronic book) |
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9789004225251 (hardback ; set ; alkaline paper) |
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9004225250 (hardback ; set ; alkaline paper) |
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