"Chinese Medicine and Healing" is a comprehensive introduction
to a rich array of Chinese healing practices as they have developed
through time and across cultures. Contributions from fifty-eight
leading international scholars in such fields as Chinese
archaeology, history, anthropology, religion, and medicine make
this a collaborative work of uncommon intellectual synergy, and a
vital new resource for anyone working in East Asian or world
history, in medical history and anthropology, and in biomedicine
and complementary healing arts.
This illustrated history explores the emergence and development
of a wide range of health interventions, including propitiation of
disease-inflicting spirits, divination, vitality-cultivating
meditative disciplines, herbal remedies, pulse diagnosis, and
acupuncture. The authors investigate processes that contribute to
historical change, such as competition between different types of
practitioner shamans, Daoist priests, Buddhist monks, scholar
physicians, and even government officials. Accompanying vignettes
and illustrations bring to life such diverse arenas of health care
as childbirth in the Tang period, Yuan state-established medical
schools, fertility control in the Qing, and the search for sexual
potency in the People s Republic.
The two final chapters illustrate Chinese healing modalities
across the globe and address the challenges they have posed as
alternatives to biomedical standards of training and licensure. The
discussion includes such far-reaching examples as Chinese
treatments for diphtheria in colonial Australia and malaria in
Africa, the invention of ear acupuncture by the French and its
worldwide dissemination, and the varying applications of
acupuncture from Germany to Argentina and Iraq."
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