Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts (e-bog) af Linda L. Barnes, Barnes

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts e-bog

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When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the &quote;rediscovery&quote; 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 understa...
E-bog 337,32 DKK
Forfattere Linda L. Barnes, Barnes (forfatter)
Udgivet 1 juli 2009
Længde 480 sider
Genrer 1FPC
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780674020542
When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "e;rediscovery"e; 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.