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Medicine and healing in ancient East Asia : a view from excavated texts / Constance A. Cook.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cook, Constance A., author.
Series:
Cambridge elements. Elements in ancient East Asia. 2632-7325
Cambridge elements. Elements in ancient East Asia, 2632-7325
Language:
Chinese
English
Subjects (All):
Medicine--East Asia--History.
Medicine.
Medicine--East Asia--History--Sources.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (71 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Language Note:
Text in English and Chinese.
Summary:
The Element focuses on the evolution of concepts, illness categories, and diagnostic and treatment methodologies evident in the newly discovered material and reveals a side of medical practice not reflected in the canons.
Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Transmitted medical knowledge and the creation of canons; 3. Non-transmitted texts: from 12th-c. BCE to 10th-c. CE; 4. Conclusion; References.
Notes:
Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 5, 2023).
ISBN:
9781108981170
1108981178
9781108981224
1108981224
9781108975834
1108975836
Access Restriction:
Open access. Unrestricted online access.

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