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OverviewHighlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period. This volume of Osiris turns the analytical lens of translation onto medical knowledge and practices across the premodern world. Understandings of the human body, and of diseases and their cures, were influenced by a range of religious, cultural, environmental, and intellectual factors. As a result, complex systems of translation emerged as people crossed linguistic and territorial boundaries to share not only theories and concepts, but also materials, such as drugs, amulets, and surgical tools. The studies here reveal how instances of translation helped to shape and, in some cases, reimagine these ideas and objects to fit within local frameworks of medical belief. Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds features case studies located in geographically and temporally diverse contexts, including ninth-century Baghdad, sixteenth-century Seville, seventeenth-century Cartagena, and nineteenth-century Bengal. Throughout, the contributors explore common themes and divergent experiences associated with a variety of historical endeavors to “translate” knowledge about health and the body across languages, practices, and media. By deconstructing traditional narratives and de-emphasizing well-worn dichotomies, this volume ultimately offers a fresh and innovative approach to histories of knowledge. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tara Alberts , Sietske Fransen , Elaine LeongPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 17.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm ISBN: 9780226821566ISBN 10: 0226821560 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 20 July 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsTranslating Medicine, ca. 800–1900: Articulations and Disarticulations Tara Alberts, Sietske Fransen, and Elaine Leong Translation and the Making of a Medical Archive: The Case of the Islamic Translation Movement Ahmed Ragab Unveiling Nature: Liu Zhi’s Translation of Arabo-Persian Physiology in Early Modern China Dror Weil New World Drugs and the Archive of Practice: Translating Nicolás Monardes in Early Modern Europe Alisha Rankin When the Tallamys Met John French: Translating, Printing, and Reading The Art of Distillation Elaine Leong Vernacular Languages and Invisible Labor in Ṭibb Shireen Hamza Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Pyric Technologies and African Pipes in the Early Modern World Benjamin Breen Translating the Inner Landscape: Anatomical Bricolage in Early Modern Japan Daniel Trambaiolo Casting Blood Circulations: Translatability and Braiding Sciences in Colonial Bengal Projit Bihari Mukharji Female Authority in Translation: Medieval Catalan Texts on Women’s Health Montserrat Cabré [Un]Muffled Histories: Translating Bodily Practices in the Early Modern Caribbean Pablo F. Gómez Translating Surgery and Alchemy between Seventeenth-Century Europe and Siam Tara Alberts “Use Me as Your Test!”: Patients, Practitioners, and the Commensurability of Virtue Hansun Hsiung Notes on Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTara Alberts is a senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of York and the author of Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500–1700. Sietske Fransen is a research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History and coeditor of Translating Early Modern Science. Elaine Leong is a lecturer in history at University College London and the author of Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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