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Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought

By Mark Edward Lewis

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2025
ISBN
9781009486897, 9781108975803, 9781108972192
DOI
10.1017/9781108975803
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3347964 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Elements: Ancient East Asia
Pages
\62
Time added
2025-02-06 10:01:00

Description

This Element examines evolving methods of cultivating the embodied self, including healing diseases and creating a superior person, in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia. It analyses many topics, including the textualization of bodily regimens and therapies, their systematization, their dissemination among different (and sometimes rival) social groups, and the diversity of traditions – religious, pharmacological, nourishing of life – that contested and combined to form a hegemonic medical practice. These topics in turn feature several issues: models of the body, regimens of cultivating and extending vitality, models of disease, and therapies for these ailments. All these ideas will be refined and extended through comparison with early Western medical traditions.

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