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When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970's. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.

Cross-cultural comparison. --- History, Early Modern 1451-1600. --- History, Modern 1601-. --- Medicine, Chinese Traditional --- Medicine, Chinese --- Western World. --- history. --- S02/0310 --- S21/0300 --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general --- Medicine --- History.

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This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a heart-head dichotomy. In contrast to the Western dualist view, Chinese takes on a more holistic view that sees the heart as the center of both emotions and thought. The contrast characterizes two cultural traditions that have developed different conceptualizations of person, self, and agent of cognition. The concept of "heart" lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language. Diachronically, this book traces the roots of its conception in ancient Chinese philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine. Along the synchronic dimension, it not only makes a systematic analysis of conventionalized expressions that reflect the underlying cultural models and conceptualizations, as well as underlying conceptual metaphors and metonymies, but also attempts a textual analysis of an essay and a number of poems for their metaphoric and metonymic images and imports contributing to the cultural models and conceptualizations. It also takes up a comparative perspective that sheds light on similarities and differences between Western and Chinese cultures in the understanding of the heart, brain, body, mind, self, and person. The book contributes to the understanding of the embodied nature of human cognition situated in its cultural context, and the relationship between language, culture, and cognition.

Xin (The Chinese word) --- Heart --- Cardiopulmonary system --- Cardiovascular system --- Chest --- Chinese language --- Symbolic aspects --- Etymology --- S12/0210 --- S12/0820 --- S15/0210 --- S21/0300 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Special philosophical subjects --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- China: Language--Special linguistic subjects --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general --- Cognitive psychology --- Psycholinguistics --- Chinese languages --- Chinese (language). --- Cognitive linguistics.

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During the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and meaning. The contributors to this volume examine occasions when intermediaries responded creatively to aspects of Chinese medicine, whether by trying to pass them on or to draw on them in furtherance of their own interests. Practitioners in Japan, at the imperial court, and in early and late Enlightenment Europe therefore responded to translations creatively, sometimes attempting to build bridges of understanding that often collapsed but left innovation in their wake. Contributors are Marta Hanson, Gianna Pomata, Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Margaret Garber, Daniel Trambaiolo, and Motoichi Terada.

S02/0300 --- S21/0300 --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the World and vice-versa --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general --- Communication in medicine --- Intellectual life --- Medicine --- Medicine, Chinese --- Translating and interpreting --- History --- History. --- Chinese influences --- Chinese influences.

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A short and thoughtful introduction to traditional Chinese medicine that looks beyond the conventional boundaries of Western modernism and biomedical science Traditional Chinese medicine is often viewed as mystical or superstitious, with outcomes requiring naïve faith. Judith Farquhar, drawing on her hard-won knowledge of social, intellectual, and clinical worlds in today’s China, here offers a concise and nuanced treatment that addresses enduring and troublesome ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions. In this work, which is based on her 2017 Terry Lectures “Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine,” she considers how the modern, rationalized, and scientific field of traditional Chinese medicine constructs its very real objects (bodies, symptoms, drugs), how experts think through and sort out pathology and health (yinyang, right qi/wrong qi, stasis, flow), and how contemporary doctors act responsibly to “seek out the root” of bodily disorder. Through this refined investigation, East-West contrasts collapse, and systematic Chinese medicine, no longer a mystery or a pseudo-science, can become a philosophical ally and a rich resource for a more capacious science.

Medicine, Chinese --- Medicine, Chinese Traditional --- Chinese Traditional Medicine --- Traditional Chinese Medicine --- Traditional Tongue Assessment --- Traditional Tongue Diagnosis --- Chinese Medicine, Traditional --- Chung I Hsueh --- Traditional Medicine, Chinese --- Zhong Yi Xue --- Hsueh, Chung I --- Tongue Assessment, Traditional --- Tongue Diagnoses, Traditional --- Tongue Diagnosis, Traditional --- Traditional Tongue Assessments --- Traditional Tongue Diagnoses --- Acupuncture Therapy --- Medicine, Kampo --- Chinese medicine --- TCM (Medicine) --- Traditional Chinese medicine --- Traditional medicine --- S21/0300 --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general --- MEDICAL --- Medicine, Chinese Traditional. --- Medicine, Chinese. --- Alternative Medicine.

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Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends.

S21/0300 --- S21/0100 --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Bibliographies, dictionaries, yearbooks and collections --- Chinese healing. --- Spiritual healing. --- Traditional healing. --- Medicine, Chinese --- Materia medica --- Medicine, Ancient --- Manuscripts, Chinese --- Manuscripts as Topic --- Medicine, East Asian Traditional --- Archives --- Information Centers --- History --- Medicine, Traditional --- Publications --- Information Science --- Humanities --- Complementary Therapies --- Communications Media --- Culture --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Therapeutics --- Anthropology --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Museums --- Medicine, Chinese Traditional --- Manuscripts, Medical --- Libraries --- Medicine --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Christianity --- Medicine - General --- Manuscripts --- Chinese manuscripts --- Ancient medicine --- Manuscripts, Chinese. --- Manuscripts.