Chinese traditional healing : the Berlin collections of manuscript volumes from the 16th through the early 20th century /

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Author / Creator:	Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943-
Imprint:	Leiden : Brill, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (3 volumes (xii, 2828 pages)) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series ; v. 10 Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series ; v. 10.
Subject:	Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz. -- Arbeitsstelle für Bibliothekstechnik. Ethnologisches Museum (Berlin, Germany) Medicine, Chinese -- Manuscripts. Spiritual healing -- Manuscripts. Traditional medicine -- Manuscripts. Manuscripts, Chinese. Manuscripts, Medical as Topic -- Germany -- Bibliography. Medicine, Chinese Traditional -- Germany -- Bibliography. Libraries -- Germany -- Bibliography. Museums -- Germany -- Bibliography. Manuscripts, Chinese. Medicine, Chinese. Spiritual healing. Traditional medicine. Electronic books. Manuscripts.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11133453

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Other authors / contributors:	Zheng, Jinsheng, 1946-
ISBN:	9789004229099 9004229094 9789004225251 9004225250
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. EBook access restricted to authorised ANU users only. Print version record.
Summary:	Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends.
Other form:	Print version: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- Chinese traditional healing. Leiden : Brill, 2012 9789004225251
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004229099

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