Titlebook: Health Care in Eleventh-Century China; Nathan Sivin Book 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 Daoist (Taoist) curative

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Health Care, Medicine, and Chinese Society,ods of therapy in the long eleventh century (960-1127) and their interaction. Historians have concentrated on the high medical tradition, with its rich sources, but its physicians treated few outside the class that governed China and owned most of its wealth. Who, then, cared for the vast majority,

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Some Definitions and Viewpoints,lite,” “religion,” and “ritual.” I also set out my positions on a number of contentious issues pertinent to the book, such as how to translate ancient medical terminology, how Chinese medical writings describe the body’s contents and metabolic processes, the role of objectivity in historical studies

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The Question of Efficacy,were effective to the extent that modern biomedicine can validate them. But today’s knowledge is not the only reliable criterion. This chapter, on the basis of recent studies in medical anthropology and sociology, observes that the success of therapy in every culture depends on three kinds of respon

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Classical Medicine,marked an important transition in medical care. In certain reigns, the imperial government, responding to a series of epidemics and other needs, deeply involved itself in medicine. It collected ancient classics, edited, and printed them, to furnish a corpus on which education could be uniformly base

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Therapy in Popular Religion,eutic rituals available, those of popular religion—popular in the sense of participation by all social strata—were most accessible. Its priests were usually neighbors, farmers or craftsmen who performed their liturgical duties as they were needed, often qualified by their ability to be possessed by

Ergots

Therapy in Elite Religions,ers was important to both as a means of spreading the faith. They freely adapted techniques from each other as well as from medicine and popular therapy. Certain techniques were peculiar to each. Buddhists in the eleventh century used mantras, rituals of repentance, and drugs energized by incantatio

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Conclusions,hole; there is a remarkable extent of overlap between therapies that originated in different religious milieux; the classical view of the body, its processes, and its disorders in the eleventh century was strikingly different from that of both pre-modern European medicine and biomedicine; the health

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Book 2015e book builds on over forty years of study and analysis of early liturgical and medical writings and a wide variety of other sources. Its focus on the eleventh century throws new light on a period of rapid transition in many aspects of therapy and itwill appeal to scholars and general readers alike.