Contagion : perspectives from pre-modern societies / edited by Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wujastyk, D.

Conrad, Lawrence I., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--History.

Communicable diseases.

History.

Communicable diseases--Social aspects--History.

Medicine, Ancient.

Communicable diseases--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xviii, 224 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2000.

Contents:

I China 1

1 Epidemics, Weather, and Contagion in Traditional Chinese Medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama 3

2 Dispersing the Foetal Toxin of the Body: Conceptions of Smallpox Aetiology in Pre-modern China / Chia-Feng Chang 23

3 The Threatening Stranger: Kewu in Pre-Modern Chinese Paediatrics / Christopher Cullen 39

II India 53

4 Notions of "Contagion" in Classical Indian Medical Texts / Rahul Peter Das 55

5 Does Ancient Indian Medicine Have a Theory of Contagion? / Kenneth G. Zysk 79

III Middle East and Europe 97

6 Old Testament "Leprosy", Contagion and Sin / Elinor Lieber 99

7 Did the Greeks Have a Word for It? / Vivian Nutton 137

8 A Ninth-Century Muslim Scholar's Discussion of Contagion / Lawrence I. Conrad 163

9 Contagion and Leprosy: Myth, Ideas and Evolution in Medieval Minds and Societies / Francois-Olivier Touati 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754602583

OCLC:

44013969