Reorienting histories of medicine : encounters along the silk roads
Title:
Reorienting histories of medicine : encounters along the silk roads
Author:
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit, author.
ISBN:
9781472512574
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Physical Description:
xiv,236 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transliterations and abbreviations -- Introduction: Medical encounters along the Silk Roads -- 1 Narrating Eurasian origins of medical knowledge -- 2 Of dice and medicine: Interactions in Central Asian'contact zones' -- 3 Myrobalans: The making of a Eurasian panacea -- 4 Tibetan moxa-cautery from Dunhuang: Practices and images on the move -- 5 Medicine of the Bakhshis: Cross-pollinations in Buddhist Iran -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- lndex
Abstract:
"ReOrienting Histories of Medicine takes a cross-cultural approach that provides a re-appraisal of the 'globalized' character of early medicine. It re-orients medical history, and emphasizes the role of the transmission of medical ideas and practices between European and Asian cultures. Using original research taken from the medical findings of Dunhuang, Turpan and Cairo Genizah, this book contextualizes the history of Euro-Asian medical encounters, from Greco-Indic early contacts to the present adoptions of mindfulness in psychotherapy"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
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