Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780415830645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 768 str.

Vivienne Lo;Michael Stanley-Baker;¬Abar

Opis

This handbook aims to showcase the latest research on medicine in China as it has developed over 3,000 years. It will identify themes concerned with both history and culture and the significance of Chinese medicine in the modern world, and invite established experts together with some of the most exciting and innovative younger researchers to respond. China will be understood as an 'open empire', receptive to all the in-coming influences of religion, materia medica and dietetica, and techniques that have shaped its healing traditions; and also exerting influence through the land, maritime, air and cyber networks that have connected it with other places. To avoid the pitfalls of representing Chinese medicine as a monolithic tradition, detailed attention will be paid to the social and cultural contexts within which a classical medicine emerged, as well as to the realities of everyday practice, to the extent that they can be known. The themes of the book will be traced historically through the healing traditions of Early China, medieval religious institutions, the transmission of knowledge and practice through ritual, writing and authority and the impact of the printing technologies of early modern China. The Ming period, in particular, provides a wealth of exquisitely illustrated medical works which demonstrate the eclectic healing environment. The Handbook will end with two sections on the significance of Chinese medicine in the modern world addressing issues of evidence and, most significantly, an analysis of the global impact of everyday Chinese attitudes to health. It will draw out the complex and paradoxical role of Chinese medicine in the construction of 'modern' Chinese nation as well as its adoption as a strategy of resistance to the perception of an all powerful biomedicine in the Euro-American sphere.

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Part 1: Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions, 1. Yin, Yang and Five Agents (Wuxing) in the Basic Questions and Early Han (202 BCE–220 CE) Medical Manuscripts, 2. Qi 氣: a Means for Cohering Natural Knowledge, 3. Re-envisioning Chinese Medicine: the view from archaeology, 4. The Importance of Numerology, Part I: state ritual and medicine, 5. The Importance of Numerology, Part II: medicine: an overview of the application of numbers in Huangdi neijing, 6. Therapeutic Exercise in the Medical Practice of Sui China (581–618 CE), 7. The Canonicity of the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic: Han through Song, 8. Pre-standardised Pharmacology: Han through Song, 9. Chace, C. ‘Developments in Chinese Medicine from the Song through the Qing’, Part 2: Sickness and Healing, 10. Ancient Pulse Taking, Complexion and the Rise of Tongue Diagnosis in Modern China, 11. Case Records Yi'an, 12. Acupuncture Illustrations, 13. Anatomy and Surgery, 14. History of Disease: pre-Han to Qing, 15. Pre-modern Madness, 16. Late Imperial Epidemiology, Part 1: from retrospective diagnosis to epidemics as diagnostic lens for other ends, 1870s to 1970s, 17. Late Imperial Epidemiology, Part 2: new material and conceptual methods, 1980s to 2010s, 18. Folk Medicine of the Qing and Republican Periods: a review of therapies in Unschuld's Berlin Manuscripts, Part 3: Food and Sex, 19. What not to Eat – How Not to Treat: medical prohibitions, 20. Chinese Traditional Medicine and Diet, 21. Food and Dietary Medicine in Chinese Herbal Literature and Beyond, 22. The Sexual Body Techniques of Early and Medieval China: Underlying Emic Theories and Basic Methods of a Non-Reproductive Sexual Scenario for Non-Same-Sex Partners, 23. Sexing the Chinese Medical body: pre-modern Chinese medicine through the lens of gender, 24. Gynaecology and Obstetrics from the Tang to the early 21^st century, 25. The Question of Sex and Modernity in China, Part 1: from xing to sexual cultivation, 26. The Question of Sex and Modernity in China, Part 2: from new ageism to sexual happiness  Part 4: Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices, 27. Daoism and Chinese Medicine, 28. Buddhist Medicine: overview of concepts, practices, texts and translations, 29. Time in Chinese Alchemy, 30. Daoist Sexual Practices for Health and Immortality for Women, 31. Junqueira, L.F.B. Numinous Herbs: stars, spirits and medicinal plants in Late Imperial China, Part 5: The World of Sinographic Medicine: a diversity of interlinked traditions, 32. Transmission of Persian Medicine into China across the Ages, 33. Vietnam in the Pre-Modern Period, 34. History and Characteristics of Korean Medicine, 35. Chinese-style Medicine in Japan, 36. A Brief History of Chinese Medicine in Singapore, 37. Minority Medicine, Part 6: Wider Diasporas, 38. Early Modern Reception in Europe: translations and transmissions, 39. The Emergence of the Practice of Acupuncture on the Medical Landscape of France and Italy in the Twentieth Century, 40. Entangled Worlds: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States, 41. The Migration of Acupuncture through the Imperium Hispanicum: case studies from Cuba, Guatemala and the Philippines, 42. Long and Winding Roads: the transfer of Chinese medical practices to African contexts, 43. Translating Chinese Medicine in the West: language, culture, and practice, Part 7: Negotiating Modernity, 44. The Declaration of Alma Ata: the global adoption of a Maoist model for Universal Healthcare, 45. Communist Medicine: the emergence of TCM and barefoot doctors, leading to contemporary medical markets, 46. Contested Medicines in Twentieth-Century China, 47. Public Health in Twentieth-Century China, 48. Encounters with Linnaeus? Modernisation of Pharmacopoeia through Bernard Read and Zhao Yuhuang up to the Present, 49. Yangsheng in the Twenty First Century: embodiment, belief and collusion, 50. Liquorice and Chinese Herbal Medicine: an epistemological challenge, 51. Decontextualised Chinese Medicines: their use as health foods and medicines in the ‘global North’