Medieval Chinese medicine : the Dunhuang medical manuscripts
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Medieval Chinese medicine : the Dunhuang medical manuscripts
(Needham Research Institute series)
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun to be widely practised in Western countries, and the academic study of the subject is now well established. However, there are still few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese medicine and there are none at all on the medieval period.
This collection represents the kind of international collaboration of research teams, centres and individuals that is required to begin to study the source materials adequately. The first book in English to discuss this fascinating material in the century since the Dunhuang library was discovered, the text provides a unique and fascinating interpretation of Chinese medical history.
Table of Contents
1. The Dunhuang Collections and International Collaboration 2. Introduction Part 1: The Manuscripts 3. Manuscripts as Sources in the History of Chinese Medicine 4. A General Survey of Medical Works contained in the Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts 5. Comments on the Problem of 'Transcription' 6. Han Bamboo and Wooden Medical Records discovered in Military Sites from the North Western Frontier Regions Part 2: Divination, Iatromancy and Related Arts 7. Mantic Texts in their Cultural Context 8. Dunhuang Iatromantic Manuscripts: P.2856 V Degreesand P.2675 R Degrees 9. Love Charms among the Dunhuang Manuscripts 10. From Prognosis to Diagnosis of Illness in Tang China Part 3: Self-Cultivation and the Popular Medical Traditions 11. Introductory Essay 12. Quick and Easy Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Moxibustion Charts 13. Art of the Bedchamber 14. Daoism and the Dunhuang Regimen Texts Part 4: Pharmacology 15. The Dunhuang Manuscripts and Pharmacology in Mediaeval China 16. The Three juan Edition of Bencao Jizhu and Excavated Sources 17. Canonical Methods for Brews and Decoctions: A Lost Text Recorded in the Hanshu Bibliography 18. Wind Malady as Madness in Mediaeval China 19. A Treatment for Cardiovascular Dysfunction in a Dunhuang Medical Manuscript Appendix 1: Materia Medica Abstracts of 73 manuscripts containing medical information held in the British Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg and Ryukoku University Library
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