Medicine, philosophy and religion in ancient China : researches and reflections
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Medicine, philosophy and religion in ancient China : researches and reflections
（Collected studies series, CS512）
Variorum, 1995
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This collection of four essays explores the cultural boundaries of Chinese science and medicine, in particular their connections with the most general issues of abstract thought and religious experience. It concludes with bibliographic guides to important books and articles on the Taoist religion.
Table of Contents
- Publications of Nathan Sivin
- comparing Greek and Chinese science
- emotional countertherapy
- the first neo-confucianism - an introduction to Yang Hsiung's "Canon of Supreme Mystery" (T'ai hsuan ching, c.4BC)
- the myth of the naturalists
- on the limits of empirical knowledge in Chinese and Western science
- on the word "Taoist" as a source of perplexity - with special reference to the relations of science and religion in traditional China
- science and taoism
- research on the history of Chinese alchemy
- an introductory bibliography of traditional Chinese medicine - books and articles in Western languages.
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