Huang Di nei jing su wen : nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text, with an appendix, The doctrine of the five periods and six qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wen /

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Author / Creator:Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943-
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Description:xii, 520 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4915279
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ISBN:0520233220 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-502) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Prefatory Remarks
  • I.. Bibliographic History of the Su Wen
  • 1.. Some Scholarly Views on the Origin of the Su wen
  • 2.. References to Huang Di nei jing and Su wen in Early Bibliographic Sources
  • II.. The Meaning of the Title Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen
  • 1.. Huang Di
  • 2.. Nei
  • 3.. Jing
  • 4.. Su wen
  • III.. Early Su Wen Texts and Commentaries Before the Eleventh Century
  • 1.. Huangfu Mi and the Jia yi jing
  • 2.. Quan Yuanqi and the Su wen xun jie
  • 3.. Yang Shangshan and the Huang Di nei jing tai su
  • 3.1.. History and Reconstruction of a Tai su Text in Japan
  • 3.2.. The Issue of the Chinese Master Copies of the Tai su
  • 3.3.. Yang Shangshan's Commentaries
  • 4.. Wang Bing's Su wen Edition of A.D. 762
  • 4.1.. Wang Bing, His Intentions and His Preface
  • 4.2.. Structural Characteristics of the Wang Bing Edition
  • 4.3.. Discourses 66 through 74 in Today's Su wen
  • 4.4.. The Influence of Wang Bing's Worldview on His Su wen Edition
  • 4.5.. Scope and Structure of Wang Bing's Commentaries
  • IV.. Origin and Tradition of the Textus Receptus of the Su Wen
  • 1.. The Imperial Editorial Office of 1057
  • 2.. The Scope of the Revision by Gao Baoheng et al.
  • 3.. The Major Commentated Su wen Versions Subsequent to Gao Baoheng et al.
  • 3.1.. Ma Shi's Huang Di nei jing su wen zhu zheng fa wei
  • 3.2.. Wu Kun's Huang Di nei jing su wen zhu
  • 3.3. Zhang Jiebin's Lei jing
  • 3.4.. Zhang Zhicong's Huang Di nei jing su wen ji zhu
  • 3.5.. Gao Shishi's Huang Di su wen zhi jie
  • 3.6.. Zhang Qi's Su wen shi yi
  • 3.7.. Hu Shu's Huang Di nei jing su wen jiao yi
  • 3.8.. Yu Yue's Nei jing bian yan
  • 4.. Two Japanese Commentated Su wen Versions of the Edo Period
  • 4.1.. Tamba Genkan's Su wen shi
  • 4.2.. Tamba Genken's Su wen shao shi
  • V.. A Survey of the Contents of the Su Wen
  • 1.. The Literary Setting
  • 2.. The Yin-Yang Doctrine
  • 2.1.. The Discovery of Dualism
  • 2.2.. The Fourfold Subcategorization
  • 2.3.. The Sixfold Subcategorization
  • 2.4.. An Eightfold or Tenfold Subcategorization?
  • 2.5.. Yin-Yang Physiology, Pathology, and Diagnosis
  • 3.. The Five-Agents Doctrine
  • 3.1.. General Remarks
  • 3.2.. Early References to Pentic Categorizations
  • 3.3.. Early Notions of Correspondences among Phenomena
  • 3.4.. Early Patterns of Correspondences
  • 3.5.. The Status Quo of the Five-Agents Doctrine in the Su wen
  • 3.6.. The Significance of the Five-Agents Doctrine in the Su wen
  • 4.. The Body and Its Organs
  • 4.1.. Su wen Morphology
  • 4.2.. Chest and Abdomen
  • 4.3.. The Head
  • 4.4.. The Extremities
  • 4.5.. General Structural Elements and Mobile Agents
  • 4.6.. Toward a Hierarchy of Human Organs
  • 4.7.. Depots, Palaces, Containers, and Officers
  • 4.8.. Links between Organs and Orifices
  • 4.9.. The Organism as a System of Morphological Entities and Their Functions
  • 5.. Blood and Qi
  • 5.1.. Blood
  • 5.2.. Qi
  • 5.3.. Camp Qi and Protective Qi
  • 6.. The Vessels
  • 6.1.. Vessel Theory in the Mawangdui Manuscripts
  • 6.2.. Vessel Morphology in the Su wen
  • 6.3.. Vessel Pathology
  • 6.4.. The Contents of the Vessels
  • 6.5.. Vessel Flow
  • 7.. Pathogenic Agents
  • 7.1.. From Bugs and Demons to Natural Environmental Factors
  • 7.2.. Wind Etiology and Pathology
  • 7.3.. Wind Etiology and Leprosy
  • 7.4.. Wind Etiology and Malaria
  • 7.5.. Dampness, Cold, Heat, and Dryness
  • 8.. Diseases
  • 8.1.. Lifestyle and Prevention
  • 8.2.. Ontological and Functional Views
  • 8.3.. Disease Terminology
  • 8.4.. Malaria
  • 8.5.. Cough
  • 8.6.. Lower Back Pain
  • 8.7.. Limpness
  • 8.8.. Block
  • 8.9.. Recession
  • 8.10.. Somatopsychic Diseases
  • 8.11.. Beyond Conceptualization
  • 9.. Examination
  • 9.1.. General Principles
  • 9.2.. Inspection
  • 9.3.. Inquiries
  • 9.4.. Three Sections and Nine Indicators
  • 9.5.. Empirical and Conceptualized Prognosis
  • 9.6.. Vessel Diagnosis of Disease
  • 9.7.. Conclusion
  • 10.. Invasive Therapies
  • 10.1.. The Concept of Invasive Intervention
  • 10.2.. Bloodletting
  • 10.3.. Bloodletting to Treat Qi
  • 10.4.. Misleading Piercing and Grand Piercing
  • 10.5.. Genuine Qi Manipulation
  • 10.6.. Morphological Piercing
  • 10.7.. The Technique of Piercing
  • 11.. Substance Therapies
  • 11.1.. From Materia Medica to Pharmacology
  • 11.2.. Pharmacotherapy in the Main Text of the Su wen
  • 11.3.. Drug Qualities and Dietary Therapy
  • 11.4.. The Dawn of Pharmacology in the "Seven Comprehensive Discourses"
  • 12.. Heat Therapies
  • 12.1.. Conceptual Levels prior to Vessel Theory
  • 12.2.. Cauterization and Vessel Theory
  • VI.. Epilogue: Toward a Comparative Historical Anthropology of Medical Thought
  • 1.. The Su wen: Document of a New Style of Thought
  • 2.. Social Facts, Worldviews, and Medical Ideas: Parallel Structures
  • 3.. Philosophical Key Terms in a Medical Context
  • 4.. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Appendix. The Doctrine of the Five Periods and Six Qi in the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen
  • Bibliography
  • Index