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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the globalisation of Chinese products and practices in the present day, taking in subjects from ancient medical writings to therapeutic movement, to talismans for healing and traditional medicines that have inspired global solutions to contemporary epidemics. The volume is divided into seven parts: Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions Sickness and Healing Food and Sex Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices The World of Sinographic Medicine Wider Diasporas Negotiating Modernity This handbook therefore introduces the broad range of ideas and techniques that comprise pre-modern medicine in China, and the historiographical and ethnographic approaches that have illuminated them. It will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, and the history of medicine and anthropology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, patients and specialists wishing to refresh their knowledge with the latest developments in the field. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

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Author:   Vivienne Lo ,  Michael Stanley-Baker ,  Michael Stanley-Baker
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.720kg
ISBN:  

9780415830645

ISBN 10:   0415830648
Pages:   796
Publication Date:   20 June 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions, 1. Yin, Yang and Five Agents (Wuxing) in the Basic Questions and Early Han (202 BCE–220 CE) Medical Manuscripts, 2. Qi 氣: a Means for Cohering Natural Knowledge, 3. Re-envisioning Chinese Medicine: the view from archaeology, 4. The Importance of Numerology, Part I: state ritual and medicine, 5. The Importance of Numerology, Part II: medicine: an overview of the application of numbers in Huangdi neijing, 6. Therapeutic Exercise in the Medical Practice of Sui China (581–618 CE), 7. The Canonicity of the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic: Han through Song, 8. Pre-standardised Pharmacology: Han through Song, 9. Chace, C. ‘Developments in Chinese Medicine from the Song through the Qing’, Part 2: Sickness and Healing, 10. Ancient Pulse Taking, Complexion and the Rise of Tongue Diagnosis in Modern China, 11. Case Records Yi'an, 12. Acupuncture Illustrations, 13. Anatomy and Surgery, 14. History of Disease: pre-Han to Qing, 15. Pre-modern Madness, 16. Late Imperial Epidemiology, Part 1: from retrospective diagnosis to epidemics as diagnostic lens for other ends, 1870s to 1970s, 17. Late Imperial Epidemiology, Part 2: new material and conceptual methods, 1980s to 2010s, 18. Folk Medicine of the Qing and Republican Periods: a review of therapies in Unschuld's Berlin Manuscripts, Part 3: Food and Sex, 19. What not to Eat – How Not to Treat: medical prohibitions, 20. Chinese Traditional Medicine and Diet, 21. Food and Dietary Medicine in Chinese Herbal Literature and Beyond, 22. The Sexual Body Techniques of Early and Medieval China: Underlying Emic Theories and Basic Methods of a Non-Reproductive Sexual Scenario for Non-Same-Sex Partners, 23. Sexing the Chinese Medical body: pre-modern Chinese medicine through the lens of gender, 24. Gynaecology and Obstetrics from the Tang to the early 21st century, 25. The Question of Sex and Modernity in China, Part 1: from xing to sexual cultivation, 26. The Question of Sex and Modernity in China, Part 2: from new ageism to sexual happiness Part 4: Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices, 27. Daoism and Chinese Medicine, 28. Buddhist Medicine: overview of concepts, practices, texts and translations, 29. Time in Chinese Alchemy, 30. Daoist Sexual Practices for Health and Immortality for Women, 31. Junqueira, L.F.B. Numinous Herbs: stars, spirits and medicinal plants in Late Imperial China, Part 5: The World of Sinographic Medicine: a diversity of interlinked traditions, 32. Transmission of Persian Medicine into China across the Ages, 33. Vietnam in the Pre-Modern Period, 34. History and Characteristics of Korean Medicine, 35. Chinese-style Medicine in Japan, 36. A Brief History of Chinese Medicine in Singapore, 37. Minority Medicine, Part 6: Wider Diasporas, 38. Early Modern Reception in Europe: translations and transmissions, 39. The Emergence of the Practice of Acupuncture on the Medical Landscape of France and Italy in the Twentieth Century, 40. Entangled Worlds: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States, 41. The Migration of Acupuncture through the Imperium Hispanicum: case studies from Cuba, Guatemala and the Philippines, 42. Long and Winding Roads: the transfer of Chinese medical practices to African contexts, 43. Translating Chinese Medicine in the West: language, culture, and practice, Part 7: Negotiating Modernity, 44. The Declaration of Alma Ata: the global adoption of a Maoist model for Universal Healthcare, 45. Communist Medicine: the emergence of TCM and barefoot doctors, leading to contemporary medical markets, 46. Contested Medicines in Twentieth-Century China, 47. Public Health in Twentieth-Century China, 48. Encounters with Linnaeus? Modernisation of Pharmacopoeia through Bernard Read and Zhao Yuhuang up to the Present, 49. Yangsheng in the Twenty First Century: embodiment, belief and collusion, 50. Liquorice and Chinese Herbal Medicine: an epistemological challenge, 51. Decontextualised Chinese Medicines: their use as health foods and medicines in the ‘global North’

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Vivienne Lo 羅維前 is Professor of Chinese History at University College London. She has published widely on the ancient and medieval history of medicine in China and in diaspora. Her research interests include medical manuscripts, medical imagery and the history of nutrition. Michael Stanley-Baker 徐源 is Assistant Professor in History at the School of Humanities, and of Medical Humanities at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. An historian of Chinese medicine and religion, particularly Daoism, he works on the early imperial period as well as contemporary Sinophone communities. Currently completing a monograph on medicine and religion as related genres of practice in China, he also produces digital humanities tools and datasets to study the migration of medicine across spatio-temporal, intellectual and linguistic boundaries. Dolly Yang 楊德秀 is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She received a PhD in 2018 from University College London for her investigation into the institutionalisation of therapeutic exercise in Sui China (581–618 CE). She has a particular interest in examining the use of non-drug-based therapy in early medieval China, allied to a passion for translating and analysing ancient Chinese medical and self-cultivation texts.

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