Verwandte Artikel zu The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of...

The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone Books) - Softcover

Kuriyama, Shigehisa

 
9780942299892: The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0942299892 ISBN 13: 9780942299892
Verlag: Zone Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

A meditation on the human body as described by the classical Greeks and by the ancient Chinese.

At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma. The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. The Expressiveness of the Body meditates on the contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. It asks how this most basic of human realities came to be conceived by two sophisticated civilizations in radically diverging ways. And it seeks answers in fresh and unexpected topics, such as the history of tactile knowledge, the relationship between ways of seeing and ways of listening, and the evolution of bloodletting.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Shigehisa Kuriyama is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History at Harvard University, where he is faculty director for the humanities at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Shigehisa Kuriyama is Associate Professor and Staff Researcher at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Zone Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0942299892
ISBN 13 
9780942299892
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
344
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Easy Access System Europe
gpsr.requests@easproject.com

51 Hatton Garden
London
EC1N 8HN
Vereinigtes Königreich