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Medieval Chinese medicine : the Dunhuang medical manuscripts / edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Needham Research Institute series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunhuang manuscripts.
- Medicine, Chinese--History--Sources.
- Medicine, Chinese.
- Medicine, Medieval--History--Sources.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, Chinese--China--Dunhuang.
- Manuscripts, Chinese.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional--history.
- History, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, Medical as Topic--history.
- China.
- Medical Subjects:
- Dunhuang manuscripts.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional--history.
- History, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, Medical as Topic--history.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 450 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Susan Whitfield
- Introduction / Christopher Cullen
- 1. Manuscripts as sources in the history of Chinese medicine / Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng
- 2. A general survey of medical works contained in the Dunhuang medical manuscripts / Wang Shumin
- 3. Comments on the problem of transcription in the Dunhuang medical manuscripts / Zhao Ping'an
- 4. Han bamboo and wooden medical records discovered in military sites from the north-western frontier regions / Xie Guihua
- 5. Mantic texts in their cultural context / Marc Kalinowski
- 6. Dunhuang iatromantic manuscripts : P. 2856 R[degree] and P. 2675 V[degree] / Donald Harper
- 7. Love charms among the Dunhuang manuscripts / Liu Lexian
- 8. From prognosis to diagnosis of illness in Tang China : comparison of the Dunhuang manuscript P. 3390 and medical sources / Catherine Despeux
- Introduction / Vivienne Lo
- 9. Quick and easy Chinese medicine : the Dunhuang moxibustion charts / Vivienne Lo
- 10. Tiandi yinyang jiaohuang dalefu and the art of the bedchamber / Sumiyo Umekawa
- 11. Daoism and the Dunhuang regimen texts / Sakade Yoshinobu
- 12. The Dunhuang manuscripts and pharmacology in medieval China / Wang Shumin
- 13. The three juan edition of Bencao jizhu and excavated sources / Mayanagi Makoto
- 14. Tangye jingfa (canonical methods for brews and decoctions) : a lost text recorded in the Hanshu bibliography / Wang Shumin
- 15. Wing malady as madness in medieval China : some threads from the Dunhuang medical manuscript / Chen Hsiu-Fen
- 16. A treatment for cardiovascular dysfunction in a Dunhuang medical manuscript / Anthony R. Butler and John Moffett
- App. 1. Materia medica / Edited by Penelope Barrett
- App. 2. Abstracts of the medical manuscripts from Dunhuang / Wang Shumin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780203482247 (electronic bk.)
- 0203482247 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99992174662
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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