Stock Code: MICAHI Name: Medicine in China A History of Ideas Author: Paul U. Unschuld Units: 423pp p/b ISBN: 0520062167 Manufacturer: University of California Press Stock Level: In Stock Now Sales Rank: 766
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A History of Ideas
In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traces the history of documented health care from its earliest extant records to present developments.
Contents
Illness and Healing in Shang Culture
The Chou Period and Demonic Medicine
Unification of the Empire, Confucianism, and the Medicine of Systematic Correspondence
Taoism and Pragmatic Drug Therapy: From Antifeudal Social Theory to Individualistic Practices of Longevity
Religious Healing: The foundation of Theocractic Rule
Buddhism and Indian Medicine
Sung Neo-Confucianism and Medical Thought: Progress with an Eye to the Past
Medical Thought during the Ming and Ch'ing Epochs: The Individual in Search of Reality
Medicine in Twentieth-Century China
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