Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780521516624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 422 str.

Elisabeth Hsu

Opis

A study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, focusing on a biography of Chunyu Yi.

Recenzje

'… Elisabeth Hsu's original study, and complete translation, of The Memoir of Chunyu Yi is beyond doubt an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine and the anthropology of sensory experience.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Spis treści

Part I. Framing the Field: Introduction; The questions; Diagnosis and medicine in the warring states and early Han; Conceptions of the body in the warring states and early Han; Discussion; Part II. Shi Ji 105.2 - The Memoir of Chunyu Yi: Outline of the memoir; Text structure semantics; Part III. Translation and Interpretation of Cases 1-10 in the Memoir of Chunyu Yi: Case 1; Case 2; Case 3; Case 4; Case 5; Case 6; Case 7; Case 8; Case 9; Case 10; Discussion; Part IV. Appendices.