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Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780674020542
DOI
10.4159/9780674020542
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8027673 bytes)
Pages
480\474
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 07:44:56

Description

When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the “rediscovery” of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing.

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