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Author Brown, Miranda, 1975- author.

Title The art of medicine in early China : the ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive / Miranda Brown, University of Michigan.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : maps
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 4, 2015).
Chapter 1 of this book was originally published in Medical History, volume 56, no. 3 (2012). Chapter 4 of this book was originally published in Chang'an 26 BCE : From Dreams to Ditches (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Attendant He : innovator or persona? -- Bian Que as a seer : political persuaders and the medical imagination -- Chunyu Yi : can the healer speak? -- Liu Xiang : the imperial library and the creation of the exemplary healer list -- Zhang Ji : the kaleidoscopic father -- Huangfu Mi : from innovator to transmitter.
Summary In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206 BC-AD 220) and Song (960-1279) dynasties to the twentieth century, Brown traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the gradual emergence of the archive of medical tradition. She exposes the historical circumstances that shaped the current image of medical progenitors: the ancient bibliographers, medieval editors, and modern reformers and defenders of Chinese medicine who contributed to the contemporary shape of the archive. Brown demonstrates how ancient and medieval ways of knowing live on in popular narratives of medical history, both in modern Asia and in the West. She also reveals the surprising and often unacknowledged debt that contemporary scholars owe to their pre-modern forebears for the categories, frameworks, and analytic tools with which to study the distant past.
Subject Medicine in literature.
Medicine, Chinese -- China -- History.
Physicians -- China -- Biography.
Medicine, Chinese -- Biography.
Medicine in Literature.
Medicine, Chinese Traditional -- history.
Physicians.
History, Ancient.
History, Medieval.
China.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Medicine, Chinese. (OCoLC)fst01015214
Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167
Physicians. (OCoLC)fst01062841
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Medicine.
Health & Biological Sciences.
History of Medicine.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Medical history.
Chang'an 26 BCE.
Other Form: Print version: Brown, Miranda, 1975- Art of medicine in early China 9781107097056 (DLC) 2014045601 (OCoLC)897001724
ISBN 9781316320617 (electronic book)
1316320618 (electronic book)
9781316156803 (electronic book)
131615680X (electronic book)
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