When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people
might point to the "rediscovery" 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.
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