Innovation in Chinese medicine

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Contents Notes on contributors Series editor's preface Table of Chinese dynasties Introduction ELISABETH HSU PartI Mai and qi in the Western Han Introduction 1 The influence of nurturing life culture on the development of Western Han acumoxa therapy VIVIENNE LO 2 Pulse diagnostics in the Western Han: how mai and qi determine bing ELISABETH HSU Part II Correlative cosmologies Introduction 3 Iatromancy, diagnosis, and prognosis in Early Chinese medicine DONALD HARPER 4 The system of the five circulatory phases and the six seasonal influences (wuyun liuqi), a source of innovation in medicine under the Song (960-1279) CATHERINE DESPEUX Part III Dietetics and pharmacotherapy Introduction 5 Dietetics in Tang China and the first extant works of materia dietetica UTE ENGELHARDT 6 A Song innovation in pharmacotherapy: some remarks on the use of white arsenic and flowers of arsenic FREDERIC OBRINGER Part IV The canons revisited in Late Imperial China Introduction 7 The Bencao gangmu of Li Shizhen: an innovation in natural history? GEORGES METAILIE 8 Robust northerners and delicate southerners: the nineteenth century invention of a southern medical tradition MARTA HANSON Part V Medical case histories Introduction 9 Yi’an 醫案 (case statements): the origins of a genre of Chinese medical literature CHRISTOPHER CULLEN 10 From case records to case histories: the modernisation of a Chinese medical genre, 1912—49 BRIDIE J. ANDREWS Part VI Medical rationale in the People’s Republic Introduction 11 A new, scientific, and unified medicine: civil war in China and the new acumoxa, 1945—49 KIM TAYLOR 12 Shaping Chinese medicine: two case studies from contemporary China VOLKER SCHEID Index