Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Medicine (Hardcover, Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology)

The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction discusses these essays, placing them in their historical and medical context, and surveys recent medical discoveries from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Science and Civilisation in China
Release date:	April 2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Joseph Needham
As told to:	Lu Gwei-Djen
Editors:	Nathan Sivin
Dimensions:	255 x 195 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
Edition:	Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-63262-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
LSN:	0-521-63262-5
Barcode:	9780521632621

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