Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1 : Chinese Historical Illness Terminology / Zhibin Zhang, Paul U. Unschuld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Zhibin, Author.

Unschuld, Paul U., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Li, Shizhen, 1518-1593. Ben cao gang mu.

Li, Shizhen.

Medicine, Chinese--History--16th century.

Medicine, Chinese.

Medicine, Chinese--Dictionaries.

Materia medica, Vegetable--China.

Materia medica, Vegetable.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (769 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518-1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

1. The Ben cao gang mu Project

2. The Heterogeneity of Early Illness Terminology

3. The Concept of Disease and Symptoms

4. Technical Terminology

5. Vernacular-Descriptive Terms

6. Terms Reflecting the Mechanics of the Human Organism

7. Locally Specific Terms

8. Demon Belief Terms

9. This Dictionary's Underlying Principles

10. The Structure of the Entries of this Dictionary

1. Abbreviations

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3. Appendix 1 Book Titles Referred to and Quoted in the Dictionary Entries

4. Appendix 2

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520959651

0520959655

OCLC:

897467009