BOOKS - HEALTH AND MEDICINE - Imagining Chinese Medicine
US $8.83
966162
966162
Imagining Chinese Medicine
Author: Editors Vivienne Lo and Penelope Barrett
Year: 2018
Number of pages: 541
Format: PDF
File size: 222.8 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2018
Number of pages: 541
Format: PDF
File size: 222.8 MB
Language: ENG
A unique collection of 36 chapters on the history of Chinese medical illustrations, this volume will take the reader on a remarkable journey from the imaging of a classical medicine to instructional manuals for bone-setting, to advertising and comic books of the Yellow Emperor. In putting images, their power and their travels at the centre of the analysis, this volume reveals many new and exciting dimensions to the history of medicine and embodiment, and challenges eurocentric histories. At a broader philosophical level, it challenges historians of science to rethink the epistemologies and materialities of knowledge transmission. There are studies by senior scholars from Asia, Europe and the Americas as well as emerging scholars working at the cutting edge of their fields.