History of medicine Books

Book SynopsisThrough a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors that influence how people think about epidemic disease.Trade Review“Patterns of Plague is an innovative, well-crafted and important study in intellectual, cultural, and medical history. Jones's writing is sophisticated and her interpretations original and well-substantiated.” Mary Lindemann, University of Miami

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Book SynopsisAs LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different branch of psychedelic history one that is sprawling, layered, and centred on New York City. A major hub for the production and consumption of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, New York spawned a unique psychedelic culture that reverberated through the city, from psychoanalytic circles to artists' studios, Greenwich Village to Central Park. Based on years of archival research, interviews with former acid heads, and a range of cultural artifacts, Psychedelic New York shows how the postwar city was at the forefront of LSD medical research, the burgeoning of psychedelic art, drug-accompanied spiritual seeking, and a proliferation of drug subcultures. Elcock recounts stories of New Yorkers such as Holocaust survivor Nina Graboi and artist Isaac Abrams, whose lives were dramatTrade Review“Previous research on LSD in the US focused on California, but Elcock persuasively argues that New York City was at least as important. Recommended.” Choice

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Book SynopsisReimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by women’s accounts of illness.Trade Review“Putting women's literary works in conversation with the emergent discipline of medicine in the eighteenth century, Heather Meek explores the nuanced positions of women in relation to the often-competing medical discourses of the time. Never before has a study brought together eighteenth-century medical and women's literary texts in such a deep and extensive way. And the very fact that six major writers of the period can be studied together to demonstrate their serious engagement with what is typically understood as a male-dominated field indicates the immense value of this project.” Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University and author of The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Book SynopsisIn his unique sourcebooks, Liu Yanchi not only provides an invaluable reference for the practitioner of traditional medicine, but also an enlightening, readable introduction for anyone interested in Chinese culture or holistic medicine.Trade ReviewNow, for the first time, a complete account of traditional Chinese medicine...Volume One is devoted to theory [founded on] the Five Elements of water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, which categorized all natural phenomena including the interaction of body organs...Treatment is the subject of Volume Two, [which contains] a table covering all plants, animals, and minerals believed to have therapeutic activity. Times Literary Supplement Reflects a great deal of work not only by the author...but also by a group of ten highly proficient translators and editors on both sides of the Pacific who did a wonderful job. Journal of the American Medical AssociationTable of ContentsTreatment: Principles and Basic Methods Chinese Medicinal Herbs: Basic Concepts and Common Examples An Introduction to Traditional Chinese Prescriptions Treatment of Some Common Conditions Treatment of Common Communicable Diseases Treatment of Common Gynecologic Disorders Treatment of Other Selected Conditions Appendix A: Names of Herbs Appendix B: Names of Prescriptions Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnother Person's Poison traces the trajectory of the debate over food allergies and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Matthew Smith illuminates society's troubled relationship with food, disease, nature, and the creation of medical knowledge.Trade ReviewA thoughtful, well-sourced, and well-analyzed history of food allergies. This book is an important contribution to the history of medicine. It will stand as definitive for some time. -- Carla Keirns, Stony Brook University This excellent resource is strongly recommended for those interested in the history of health research, including undergraduates, graduates, and medical professionals. Library Journal While much remains to be discovered about food allergies, Smith capably introduces readers to the complex and confounding connection between what we eat and our bodies' adverse reactions. Booklist The story Mr. Smith tells is fundamentally fascinating... New York Times Well-rounded... It will broaden your knowledge and may lead you to consider allergy in new ways. New York Journal of Books An expansive tour... Smith's history is a finely detailed examination of the discipline. Allergic Living Magazine An absorbing treatise... This book is an excellent introduction to the popular topic of food allergies... Recommended. Choice Smith's book is a fascinating overview of the contested history and meanings of food allergy over the past century. Los Angeles Review of Books A focused, well-researched book... This insightful monograph should inspire a host of other scholars. -- Kendra Smith-Howard H-Sci-Med-Tech Smith deals lightly but competently with complex issues, using anecdotes and case studiesto provide an appealing narrative. Social History of Medicine An illuminating in-depth look at the tumultuous history of one of the more divisive members of the allergy family... rich, thoughtful, and accessible addition to the history of medicine. It is also a gripping work of social commentary, full of twists and suprises, which will undoubtedly stimulate further debate - on and off the dinner table. Food Culture Society An insightful, engaging, and very useful book on the history of food allergy... a welcome contribution to the growing literature on the history of food and nutrition in medicine and public health. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Another Person's Poison is extremely well written, easy to read yet scholarly, and extensively documented. IsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: "Witchcraft, a fad, or a racket?" 1. Food Allergy Before Allergy 2. Anaphylaxis, Allergy, and the Food Factor in Disease 3. Strangest of All Maladies 4. Panic? Or the Pantry? 5. An Immunological Explosion? 6. The Problem with Peanuts Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA definitive account of the efforts by Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and other conservatives to remake American politics, the American economy, and America’s approach to the world in a pivotal decade.Trade ReviewAn amazing book and a stellar contribution to Columbia University Press's growing catalog of Tibetan and Tibetan Buddhist studies, for it will be the key book on medicine and religion in Tibet for this generation. Like Janet Gyatso's book on autobiography, her new book on medicine will simply be field defining. Little of this literature has received attention to date, and in fact much of it has only been available to a contemporary international scholarly audience for a decade or so. -- Kurtis R. Schaeffer, University of Virginia Janet Gyatso's long-awaited Being Human in a Buddhist World is the most important study of Tibetan medicine in the English language, surpassing previous scholarship in the scope of its history, the extent of its research, and the depth of its insights. Yet it is also more than that. It is the rare work that causes us to rethink the foundations of our field, leaving readers with both answers and questions about what is encompassed by terms like 'Tibetan Buddhism' and 'medical science.' -- Donald Lopez, University of Michigan This book is a fascinating, lucid, and profound exploration of the history in Tibet of the mentality and practices, both empirical and discursive, of probative medicine within the context of Buddhist civilization, a concept introduced and used as a more broad category than that of a 'Buddhism' concerned primarily with ideals of human perfection and supernatural realms. Moving deftly between fine-grained analysis of textual and visual materials from the seventh to seventeenth centuries and an open-ended discussion of large-scale historical and cultural issues, the book makes a significant contribution not only to Tibetan and Buddhist studies but also to current debates on the historiography and philosophy of the interactions and conflicts between religion and science. -- Steven Collins, University of Chicago Janet Gyatso's book is an extraordinarily sophisticated presentation of the history of Tibetan Buddhist medical practice from the inside out-an account that is deeply grounded in Tibetan language sources while never losing sight of key analytical, historical, and methodological questions pertinent to recent debates in the history of medicine and Buddhist studies, not to mention wider studies in the history of culture and literature in South Asia and beyond. This book will be a landmark in the study of South Asian medical traditions. What distinguishes it from other studies is its complexity of vision. It deftly traces the surprising entanglements of Buddhist doctrine, state patronage, and social power with both scholastic medical traditions and medical practitioners on the ground to give us a historical picture that is compellingly nuanced and refreshingly open-clearing the path for future research. -- Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania A fascinating intellectual history by a mature scholar at the top of her game. Choice Written in a brilliant style, with engaging language... This exceptional work is an inspiring and valuable contribution to a broad range of medical discourses reaching well beyond the world of Tibetan medicine. Isis [Gyatso's] breadth of erudition is matched by the clarity and sophistication with which she frames and explicates her subject matter. Bulletin of the History of Medicine This is a major contribution to the field, and deserves to be widely read. Social History of Medicine Lucid and eloquent... [Being Human in a Buddhist World] is a major contribution to the broader issues of science-religion themes in Asian medicine, and will clearly be outstanding among the works on the history of Tibetan medicine for a long time to come. -- Barbara Gerke Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies [Being Human in a Buddhist World] greatly increases our understanding of Tibetan medical history, and could complement well readings in a graduate course on the history of science or medicine in Asia. -- Ryan John Jones Religious Studies Review Bridging studies of religion, science, and medicine, Being Human in a Buddhist World will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in thinking through these topics comparatively within and beyond Asian studies. The book will be valued by specialists and in graduate courses for its contributions to Buddhist studies and Tibetan studies, including an overview of the complex Tibetan system of tantric anatomy. At the same time, this intellectual history draws attention to the dearth of social histories of Tibet, and in particular Tibetan medical culture, which might shed further light on the rhetorical contradictions Gyatso identifies among Tibetan medical scholars. -- Stacey Van Vleet Journal of Asian Studies This major publication, the fruit of many years' work and engagement with key sources in the historical development of Tibetan medicine, is likely to remain a landmark in the study of Tibetan medical thought. -- Cathy Cantwell Revue d'Etudes TibetainesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Technical Note Abbreviations Introduction Part I: In the Capital 1. Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State 2. Anatomy of an Attitude: Medicine Comes of Age Part II: Bones of Contention 3. The Word of the Buddha 4. The Evidence of the Body: Medical Channels. Tantric Knowing 5. Tangled Up in System: The Heart, in the Text and in the Hand Coda: Influence, Rhetoric, and Riding Two Horses at Once Part III: Roots of the Profession 6. Women and Gender 7. The Ethics of Being Human: The Doctor's Formation in a Material Realm Conclusion: Ways and Means for Medicine Notes Bibliographies Index

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Book SynopsisThis book helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about exhaustion. By uniting the mind with the body and society , we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.Trade ReviewExhaustion is fluently written and brilliantly argued, and it will provoke thoughtful minds with the suggestion that exhaustion has a history. -- Edward Shorter, author of How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown Exhaustion is an impressive, accomplished, and original book, one that promises to command a wide cross-disciplinary readership. A formidable amount of reading and research has gone into this work, which stretches from classical antiquity to the present day, yet Anna Katharina Schaffner marshals her material confidently and carries her learning lightly. Her book is a pleasure to read. -- Michael Greaney, author of Conrad, Language, and Narrative Schaffner's imaginative and ambitious work offers rich materials with which to think about exhaustion. -- Thomas Dixon Times Literary Supplement When Exhaustion does bring theory and experience together, it becomes engrossing-which makes it all the more regrettable that for so many centuries, our exhausted ancestors remained silent. -- Hanna Rosefield New Republic A fascinating study of the ways in which doctors and philosophers have understood the limits of the human mind, body - and energy. -- David Robson BBC Futures A timely contribution to a neglected field of study. BMJ Medical Humanities BlogTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Humors 2. Sin 3. Saturn 4. Sexuality 5. Nerves 6. Capitalism 7. Rest 8. The Death Drive 9. Depression 10. Mystery Viruses 11. Burnout Epilogue: The Future Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA history celebrating one hundred years of groundbreaking work in dental medicine.Trade ReviewAn exploration of the important history of Columbia University and its effect on the nation and the world. A remarkable book about a critical achievement in the history of human health. -- Leon Assael, dean, School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota This book should be required reading for dental school deans, administrators, faculty, and even students who have to decide where to apply and where to go to dental school. Allan J. Formicola has the comprehensive overview of this subject matter, detailed insights in the life of this institution, and a solid understanding of the complexity of academic life in dental schools like no one else. -- Marita Inglehart, University of Michigan School of Dentistry Formicola has done an outstanding job with this well-written, factual, and interesting history of the past hundred years at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. It is a significant contribution to the history of dental education and an appropriate historical tribute to the school. -- Howard Bailit, University of Connecticut School of Dental MedicineTable of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. 1916-1941: A Dental School on University Lines 2. 1941-1978: Living Up to Standards: The Difficult Years 3. 1978-2001: The Leap to the Future: Reaching Out 4. 2001-2013: The New Millennium: The School of Dental and Oral Surgery Becomes the College of Dental Medicine 5. 2013-2016 and Beyond: Plans for the Next 100 Years 6. Students and Alumni Appendix 1: The Founding Document Appendix 2: The Predecessor Institutions from 1852 Through 1923 Appendix 3: Letter from Victor S. Koussow to Arthur T. Rowe Appendix 4: Funded Search Studies in the 2014-2015 Year Appendix 5: Members of the College of Dental Medicine Board of Advisors Appendix 6: Presidents of the Alumni Organization Appendix 7: Columbia University Alumni Distinguished Service Medal Awardees Appendix 8: College of Dental Medicine Distinguished Alumni Awardees Appendix 9: A Snapshot of Distinguished Graduates of the College of Dental Medicine Appendix 10: The Deans of the Dental School and Directors of the Dental Hygiene Program Appendix 11: Milestones in the History of the College of Dental Medicine: 1916-2016 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHoward Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role in the formation of Chinese modernity. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.Trade ReviewAfter Eunuchs deftly explores how the introduction of Western biomedicine transformed understandings of gender, sexuality, and the body in Chinese contexts from the twentieth century onward. Using an impressive range of sources, Chiang rescues the history of castration—perhaps one of the most notorious culturally overdetermined corporeal subjects—from the legacy of prevailing nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives that characterize the practice almost exclusively as backward, traditional, and oppressive. Along the way, Chiang illuminates a host of other practices and corporeal formations by challenging the many essentialisms that still inform our assumptions about the wholeness of the human body. A rich and original work. -- Ari Heinrich, University of California, San DiegoAn important study that is both long overdue and remarkably timely. Chiang draws a controversial line between imperial China’s eunuchs and modern Taiwan’s first transsexual surgery. Tracing this path takes us through twentieth-century regimes of visuality, the impact of biological and psychiatric reasoning, and the production of sexual pathologies. With its focus on “transformations of sex,” After Eunuchs will undoubtedly renew debate about the nature of Chinese modernity. -- Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt UniversityHoward Chiang’s After Eunuchs is a persuasive history of how, between 1870 and 1930, bio-scientization of sex was normalized in China. This strongly evidenced, briskly written, imaginative work takes a bold step into describing conditions for thinking about sexual and therefore gender difference. It appeals across the disciplines and enters into general debates about the science and history of sex difference, sexual desire, sex morphology, and queer theory. -- Tani Barlow, Rice UniversityChiang’s After Eunuchs presents a fascinating genealogical dissection of the epistemology of gender mutability, intersexuality, and transsexuality in modern Chinese history. * LSE Review of Books *After Eunuchs is both a fascinating tour of the construction and deconstruction of sexuality in the Chinese‐speaking (Sinophone) world and a significant theoretical contribution to historical understandings of the creation of global medical and scientific modernity. * The Historian *After Eunuchs is an imaginative and erudite account of sex, science and Chinese modernity...a must readfor scholars interested in the East Asia and Sinophone studies, the history of science and medicine, as well as sexuality and queer studies. * Social History of Medicine *An important contribution to the history of global sexuality in multiple ways. * Gender and History *[After Eunuchs] is very much a worthwhile read, and moreover, meticulously researched. * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *A monumental study that rethinks China’s modernity through the historical intersection of science and sexuality. . . . Chiang demonstrates the crucial roles of nonwestern societies in the history of sexuality, queer studies, as well as producing and transmitting scientific knowledge. * Canadian Journal of History *The book’s organized structure, historical contextualization, and lucid prose make it accessible to a broad audience both within and outside the China field...a must-read for scholars of modern Chinese history and culture, as well as for anyone invested in understanding the global history of science, medicine, and sex -- Elise Huerta, Stanford University * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *Wide ranging and ambitious in its themes and scholarly engagements. * Twentieth Century China *A fascinating, persuasive analysis...this book makes a rich and imaginative contribution to discussions aboutthe psychobiological understandings of sex and sexuality that emerged in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. -- Séagh Kehoe, Contemporary China Centre, University of Westminster * GLQ *Careful exegeses of a vast array of sources and scholarship is masterfully intertwined with heart-wrenching (and often cringeworthy) stories of individuals’ physical and emotional pain…. No matter the similarities to sexes, genders, and sexualities elsewhere, in China too, sex (and ethnicity) are products of specific local, regional, and global histories. Within those histories, After Eunuchs constitutes an important milestone far beyond its subject matter—especially in how it navigates the fault lines of language, history, and theory. -- Sabine Frühstück * Journal of Women’s History *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Toward a Genealogy of Sex1. China Castrated2. Vital Visions3. Deciphering Desire4. Mercurial Matter5. Transsexual TaiwanConclusion: China Trans FormedList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA companion to Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, this work presents a collection of modern and contemporary texts and conversations from across the Buddhist world dealing with the multifaceted relationship between Buddhism and medicine covering the early modern period to the present.Trade ReviewBuddhism and Medicine is an invaluable sourcebook for the complex interplay between religion and medicine in Asia. It breaks ground on an astonishing range of topics and materials, and should be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and scholars of religion. -- Robert H. Sharf, D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of California, BerkeleyThis excellent volume should be an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of Buddhism and science, medicine, magic, and healing. By drawing on a wide variety of both textual and ethnographic sources from colonial critiques to modern Facebook posts from across the Buddhist world, the editor and his contributors have provided a rare view into the study of Buddhism and medicine that goes far beyond the contemporary study of mindfulness and well-being. -- Justin Thomas McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern ThailandIn this elegant sourcebook, C. Pierce Salguero and his collaborators demonstrate, with unprecedented scope, how very diverse are the world's Buddhisms and the world's medicines. Neither romanticizing nor dismissing the contributions of Asian religion to the history of healing, this project teaches us much about how humans have dealt with suffering, today and in the past. -- Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of ChicagoHealth and illness have always been concerns of practitioners. These translations of exemplary medical texts from the recent past demonstrate the enduring medical tradition within Buddhism. Not merely a religious tradition, or a system of doctrinal claims, or the texts that contain those claims and their philosophic rationales, Buddhism is effectively a culture in its own right. -- Richard K. Payne, author of Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: Indic Roots of MantraThe book always provides the tools the reader needs to make sense of what is being presented. Overall it succeeds wonderfully in conveying the vitality of the ongoing encounter of Buddhism and medicine. Readers with any interest in thisfield are likely tofind it a constant source of stimulation and enlightenment. * Isis *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionEarly Modernity1. Buddhist Monastic Physicians’ Encounters with the Jesuits in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Japan, as Told from Both Sides, by Katja Triplett2. On Sickness, Society, and the New Self in Early Edo Japan: Soshin’s Dharma Words (Seventeenth Century), by Katja Triplett3. Buddhism and Scholarly Medicine in Seventeenth-Century China: Three Preaces to the Work of Yu Chang (1585–1664), by Volker Scheid4. An Eighteenth-Century Mongolian Treatise on Smallpox Inoculation: Lobsang Tsültim’s “The Practice of Preparing Medicine for the Planting of Heaven’s White Flower” (1785), by Batsaikhan Norov, Vesna A. Wallace, and Batchimeg Usukhbayar5. Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine at the Dawn of Modern Japan: Hara Tanzan’s “On the Difference Between the Brain and the Spinal Cord” (1869), by Justin B. Stein6. No Sympathy for the Devils: A Colonial Polemic Against Yakṣa Healing Rituals (1851), by Alexander McKinley7. “Enveloped in the Deep Darkness of Ignorance and Superstition”: Western Observers of Buddhism and Medicine in the Kingdom of Siam in the Colonial Era, by C. Pierce SalgueroRuptures and Reconciliations8. Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco (Late Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century), by Joshua Capitanio9. Buddhism and Biomedicine in Republican China: Taixu’s “Buddhism and Science” (1923) and Ding Fubao’s Essentials of Buddhist Studies (1920), by Gregory Adam Scott10. Reconciling Scripture and Surgery in Tibet: Khyenrap Norbu’s Arranging the Tree Trunks of Healing (1952), by William A. McGrath11. Healing Wisdom: An Appreciation of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist’s Paintings of the Heart Sūtra, by Paula K. R. Arai12. Mantras for Modernity: Nida Chenagtsang’s "Mantra Healing Is an Indispensable Branch of Tibetan Traditional Medicine” (2015) and “A Rough Explanation of How Mantras Work” (2003), by Ben P. Joffe13. Science and Authority in Tibetan Medicine: Gönpokyap’s “Extraordinarily Special Features of the Human Body” (2008), by Jenny Bright14. “Eat Less Meat to Save the World”: Monk Changlyu’s The Book of Diagnosis and Natural Foods (2014), by Emily S. WuHybridities and Innovations15. Taiwanese Tantra: Guru Wuguang’s Art of Yogic Nourishment and the Esoteric Path (1966), by Cody R. Bahir16. Making a Modern Image of Jīvaka: “First Encounters with Jīvaka Komārabhacca, the High Guru of Healers and the Inspiration for Sculpting His Image” (1969), by Anthony Lovenheim Irwin17. Gross National Happiness: Buddhist Principles and Bhutanese National Health Policy, by Charles Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie18. Using Buddhist Resources in Post-disaster Japan: Taniyama Yōzō’s “Vihāra Priests and Interfaith Chaplains” (2014), by Levi McLaughlin19. Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts, by Thomas Nathan PattonMeditation and Mental Health20. Naikan and Psychiatric Medicine: Takemoto Takahiro’s Naikan and Medicine (1979), by Clark Chilson21. A Contemporary Shingon Priest’s Meditation Therapies: Selections from the Writings of Ōshita Daien (2006–2016), by Nathan Jishin Michon22. Mindfulness in Westminster: The All-Party Parliamentary Group’s Mindful UK (2014), by Joanna Cook23. Medicalizing Sŏn Meditation in Korea: An Interview with Venerable Misan Sŭnim, by Lina Koleilat24. Misuses of Mindfulness: Ron Purser and David Loy’s “Beyond McMindfulness” (2013), by David L. McMahanCrossing Boundaries25. Rediscovering Living Buddhism in Modern Bengal: Maniklal Singha’s The Mantrayāna of Rārh (1979), by Projit Bihari Mukharji26. Conversations with Two (Possibly) Buddhist Folk Healers in China, by Thomas David DuBois27. Interview with a Contemporary Chinese American Healer, by Kin Cheung and C. Pierce Salguero28. “We Need to Balance Out the Boisterous Spirits and Gods”: Buddhism in the Healing Practice of a Contemporary Korean Shaman, by Minjung Noh and C. Pierce Salguero29. Among Archangels, Aliens, and Ascended Masters: Quan Yin Bodhisattva Joins the New Age Pantheon, by C. Pierce SalgueroBuddhist Healing in Practice30. Buddhism and Resistance in Northern Thai Traditional Medicine: An Interview with an Unlicensed Thai Folk Healer, by Assunta Hunter31. Burmese Alchemy in Practice: A Conversation with Master U Shein, by Céline Coderey32. Mental Illness in the Sowa Rigpa Clinic: A Conversation with Dr. Teinlay P. Trogawa, by Susannah Deane33. Biographical Interview with the Tantric Meditator Tshampa Tseten from Bhutan, with a Translation of His “Edible Letters,” by Mona Schrempf34. Japanese Buddhist Women’s “Way of Healing,” by Paula K. R. Arai35. Conversations About Buddhism and Health Care in Multiethnic Philadelphia, by C. Pierce SalgueroAppendix: Geographic Table of ContentsGlossaryReferencesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This study of the pesthouse, an institution designed to cope with the fear of contagious disease, is a significant contribution to the history of American medicine and public health as well as the history of immigration and ethnicity."--Journal of American Ethnic History"With this timely book, Risse has made an important contribution to the critical reflection of ongoing reorganisations and the apparent strengthening of federal powers in matters of quarantine and epidemic preparedness in the USA."--Social History of Medicine"An excellent account of the largely overlooked role of pesthouses in public health history… [Driven by Fear is] deeply researched, wonderfully written, and very timely."--Western Historical Quarterly"A true gem from one of our most distinguished historians of medicine. Risse's book is ambitious, original, and even brave. Driven by Fear covers an admirably wide variety of subjects and subdisciplines, and in the process truly breaks new ground in the history of public health. Moreover, Risse's prose consistently helps us feel the past--his is indeed an emotional as well as intellectual achievement."--Robert D. Johnston, editor of The Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America"Using a wonderfully drawn history of San Francisco's Pest House as his primary exhibit, Risse shows us how fear of contagion, if not diluted with compassion and a respect for human dignity, quickly produces harsh, impersonal, and militaristic measures against 'the enemy,' people who disgust us simply because they have, or might have been exposed to, whatever the threatening disease of the day is--smallpox, syphilis, leprosy, plague, or even SARS or Ebola. A must read for anyone interested in protecting the public's health, social justice, and human rights."--George J. Annas, author of Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health"In this startlingly vivid and humane study, Guenter Risse, doyen of hospital historians, sets a lost history in the context of issues of disease prevention, municipal politics, and the history of the emotions. Only by understanding the lived experience of disgust and fear in the past, Risse argues, are we likely to do better in the present and future with stigmatized diseases."--Colin Jones, author of The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris"A deeply researched, very well-written and timely account by the foremost historian of public health policy in the city by the Golden Gate of how emotions of fear and disgust can war with compassion and rational planning in the shaping of a community’s response to epidemics. Risse has made a major contribution to both San Francisco history and American social history by documenting the tangled racial, ethnic, psychological, ideological, and practical roots of the discourse and practice of activists who worked to protect the city's residents from contagion by smallpox, syphilis, leprosy, and bubonic plague in the early years of the twentieth century. Driven by Fear is an engaging and highly original addition to Western American history and American urban history and a must read for historians and contemporary public health scholars and practitioners."--William Issel, author of Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth Century San Francisco"Thoroughly grounding his book in rich primary sources, particularly newspapers (especially the San Francisco Chronicle, and medical sources, Risse provides a model for sound historical research and storytelling, both of considerable use to undergraduates. Far more than an isolated historical account, the work continually relates the historical implications to modern medical culture and practice. Highly recommended."--Choice "A well-researched study that demonstrates the shortsightedness of governments that focused more on satisfying business interests than on funding adequate health provisions in response to epidemics."--Journal of American History "Risse makes expert use of the history of the pesthouse to illustrate the dangers of authoritarian public health interventions . . . and makes a persuasive case for community-based, multi-directional responses that conscientiously reckon with the ways in which racial, ethnic, and class disparities frame our understanding of health and risk."--Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences "This book is valuable for its detailed history of a troubling chapter in medical and public health history. It should be required reading for today's public health policy makers."--Bulletin of the History of Medicine "Guenter Risse has written a very interesting and well-documented book, one that has a message for contemporary times as well as being an exploration into the history of San Francisco's pest house."--Pacific Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"This well-constructed and consistently high-quality collection makes a compelling case for the usefulness of performativity as a mode of biocultural and emotional analysis." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History"This wide-ranging and rigorously historicized collection of essays gives new insights into how emotions have changed and been deployed over time. The stress on emotions as a practical engagement with the world that has tangible effects is especially welcome."--Jo Labanyi, editor of Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice​"This well-constructed and consistently high-quality collection makes a compelling case for the usefulness of performativity as a mode of biocultural and emotional analysis." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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Book SynopsisA century of developing health culture in McLean County, IllinoisTrade ReviewReceived a Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2009. "An interesting portrait of the shift from rural and traditional nineteenth-century medical care to modernized, scientific, professional medical care and public health rules and regulations as seen from the perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, and other community members."The Journal of American History“Beier has contributed substantially to a new understanding of biomedicine in the twentieth century Midwest and in the United States.”--Journal of Illinois History“Well-written and smoothly flowing. . . . Anyone interested in how changes in life, death, and expectations about health care evolve over a century would be remiss if they did not read, and enjoy, this book.”--Annals of Iowa“This is a must book for those with interests in family, cultural, social, gender, ethnic, and medical history. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice"A superb model of analytical local history and of social history."--American Historical Review“An informative, original, and important book. Beier’s well-written and thoroughly researched work seeks to reconcile a broader historiography with the experiences of the people who lived through a period of profound change in McLean County, Illinois.”--Timothy A. Hickman, author of The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic Addiction and Cultural Crisis in the United States, 1870-1920“Lucinda Beier’s command and deep use of local sources puts a very human face on medicine as it was experienced. Her ability to probe the memory of informants and her understanding of national medical trends help us understand how people of the past suffered, healed, or died. This on-the-ground history serves as a fine example of the value of such local sources to cultural historians.”--Greg Koos, executive director, McLean County Museum of HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction: A Matter of Life and Death ix 1. Living and Dying in Nineteenth-Century McLean County 1 2. No Place Like Home: Hospitals and the Development of Institutional Care 22 3. Nursing, Gender, and Modern Medicine 44 4. Doctors and Organized Medicine 73 5. An Ounce of Prevention: Public Health Services 117 6. Matters of Life and Death: Experience and Expectations of Health, Illness, and Medical Care in the Twentieth Century 136 Conclusion: Health Culture in Transition 179 Appendix: Oral History Informants 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 223 Index 233Illustrations follow page 116

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This study of the pesthouse, an institution designed to cope with the fear of contagious disease, is a significant contribution to the history of American medicine and public health as well as the history of immigration and ethnicity."--Journal of American Ethnic History"With this timely book, Risse has made an important contribution to the critical reflection of ongoing reorganisations and the apparent strengthening of federal powers in matters of quarantine and epidemic preparedness in the USA."--Social History of Medicine"An excellent account of the largely overlooked role of pesthouses in public health history… [Driven by Fear is] deeply researched, wonderfully written, and very timely."--Western Historical Quarterly"A true gem from one of our most distinguished historians of medicine. Risse's book is ambitious, original, and even brave. Driven by Fear covers an admirably wide variety of subjects and subdisciplines, and in the process truly breaks new ground in the history of public health. Moreover, Risse's prose consistently helps us feel the past--his is indeed an emotional as well as intellectual achievement."--Robert D. Johnston, editor of The Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America"Using a wonderfully drawn history of San Francisco's Pest House as his primary exhibit, Risse shows us how fear of contagion, if not diluted with compassion and a respect for human dignity, quickly produces harsh, impersonal, and militaristic measures against 'the enemy,' people who disgust us simply because they have, or might have been exposed to, whatever the threatening disease of the day is--smallpox, syphilis, leprosy, plague, or even SARS or Ebola. A must read for anyone interested in protecting the public's health, social justice, and human rights."--George J. Annas, author of Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health"In this startlingly vivid and humane study, Guenter Risse, doyen of hospital historians, sets a lost history in the context of issues of disease prevention, municipal politics, and the history of the emotions. Only by understanding the lived experience of disgust and fear in the past, Risse argues, are we likely to do better in the present and future with stigmatized diseases."--Colin Jones, author of The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris"A deeply researched, very well-written and timely account by the foremost historian of public health policy in the city by the Golden Gate of how emotions of fear and disgust can war with compassion and rational planning in the shaping of a community’s response to epidemics. Risse has made a major contribution to both San Francisco history and American social history by documenting the tangled racial, ethnic, psychological, ideological, and practical roots of the discourse and practice of activists who worked to protect the city's residents from contagion by smallpox, syphilis, leprosy, and bubonic plague in the early years of the twentieth century. Driven by Fear is an engaging and highly original addition to Western American history and American urban history and a must read for historians and contemporary public health scholars and practitioners."--William Issel, author of Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth Century San Francisco"Thoroughly grounding his book in rich primary sources, particularly newspapers (especially the San Francisco Chronicle, and medical sources, Risse provides a model for sound historical research and storytelling, both of considerable use to undergraduates. Far more than an isolated historical account, the work continually relates the historical implications to modern medical culture and practice. Highly recommended."--Choice "A well-researched study that demonstrates the shortsightedness of governments that focused more on satisfying business interests than on funding adequate health provisions in response to epidemics."--Journal of American History "Risse makes expert use of the history of the pesthouse to illustrate the dangers of authoritarian public health interventions . . . and makes a persuasive case for community-based, multi-directional responses that conscientiously reckon with the ways in which racial, ethnic, and class disparities frame our understanding of health and risk."--Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences "This book is valuable for its detailed history of a troubling chapter in medical and public health history. It should be required reading for today's public health policy makers."--Bulletin of the History of Medicine "Guenter Risse has written a very interesting and well-documented book, one that has a message for contemporary times as well as being an exploration into the history of San Francisco's pest house."--Pacific Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"This well-constructed and consistently high-quality collection makes a compelling case for the usefulness of performativity as a mode of biocultural and emotional analysis." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History"This wide-ranging and rigorously historicized collection of essays gives new insights into how emotions have changed and been deployed over time. The stress on emotions as a practical engagement with the world that has tangible effects is especially welcome."--Jo Labanyi, editor of Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice​"This well-constructed and consistently high-quality collection makes a compelling case for the usefulness of performativity as a mode of biocultural and emotional analysis." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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Book SynopsisExamines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people.Trade ReviewMedical Transitions in Twentieth Century China provides rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens. Yet the book sheds light on more than simply China's own medical transitions, and should appeal to anyone interested more broadly in the modern history of health. * The Lancet *Anyone interested in the history of modern medicine will find this an especially instructive book for its focus on China, its treatment of political and social issues, and its explanation of how decollectivization and China's opening to a market economy have impacted medicine and health care. A substantial bibliography and detailed index make this a particularly useful volume for promoting further scholarship on the history and politics of medicine in contemporary China. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[T]his volume provides an invaluable synthesis of modern medical development in China, and useful sources for survey courses on medical history, public health and the global circulation of knowledge. * Social History of Medicine *Overall, this work achieves what it set out to do: write a general overview of the great changes in the history of health and health care in twentieth-century China. The collection of papers is impressive and gives the reader a good introduction into the transformations in health and medical care in China. * Frontiers of History in Chinca *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: Health Transitions 1. China's Exceptional Health Transitions: Overcoming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / Lincoln Chen and Chen Ling2. Changing Patterns of Diseases and Longevity: The evolution of health in 20th century Beijing / Zhang Daqing3. Maternal and Child Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-Century China / Yi-li Wu and Tina Johnson4. Tobacco Smoking and Health in Twentieth-Century China / Carol BenedictPart 2: Disease Transitions5. Epidemics and Public Health in Twentieth-Century China / Yu Xinzhong6. Schistosomiasis / Miriam Gross and Fan Ka Wai7. Tuberculosis control in Shanghai: bringing health to the masses, 1928-present / Rachel Core8. The Development of Psychiatric Services in China: Christianity, Communism and Community / Veronica PearsonPart 3: Adaptations and Innovations9. Foreign Models of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Part One / Gao Xi10. John B. Grant: Public Health and State Medicine / Bu Liping11. The Influence of War on China's Modern Health Systems / Nicole Barnes and John Watt12. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine / Volker Scheid and Sean Hsiang-lin Lei13. Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care / Fang XiaopingPart 4: Professional Transitions14. A Case Study of Transnational Flows of Chinese Medical Professionals: China Medical Board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows / Mary Brown Bullock15. The Development of Modern Nursing in China / Sonya Grypma and Zhen Cheng16. The Evolution of the Hospital in Twentieth-Century China / Michelle RenshawConclusionAppendix: TimelineNotesGeneral BibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisHealth patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. This volume provides an approach to the history of health in Southeast Asia.Trade ReviewThe essays in this volume . . . deserve a wide readership, not only by those interested in the history of medicine but by all who are interested in the history of Southeast Asia. * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *[T]his volume is a remarkable addition to scholarship. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Sunil Amrith and Tim HarperPart I. The Long Duree1. Knowledge Transition and the Transformation of Medicine in Early Modern Siam / Komatra Chuengsatiansup & Nopphanat Anuphongphat Part II. Health and Crisis2. Pilgrim Ships and the Frontiers of Contagion: Quarantine Regimes from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea / Eric Tagliacozzo3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19 / Kirsty Walker4. Disaster Medicine in Southeast Asia / Greg BankoffPart III. Uneven Transitions5. The Demographic History of Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century / Peter Boomgaard6. "Rural" Health in Modern Southeast Asia / Atsuko Naoko 7. Population Ageing and the Family: The Southeast Asian Context / Theresa W. Devasahayam8. Epidemic Disease in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia / Mary WilsonPart IV. The Politics of Health9. The Internationalization of Health in Southeast Asia / Sunil Amrith10. Modernising yet Marginal: Hospitals and Asylums in Southeast Asia in the 20th Century / Loh Kah Seng11. Healing the Nation: Politics, Medicine and Analogies of Health in Southeast Asia / Rachel Leow12. Health or Tobacco: Competing Perspectives in Modern Southeast Asia / Loh Wei Leng13. The Role of Non-governmental Organizations in the Field of Health in Modern Southeast Asia: the Philippine Experience / Teresa S Encarnacion TademNotesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA cogent economic analysis of why the Black Death devastated Egypt while it revitalized England.Trade Review"I cannot think of a finer piece of work that I have read in comparative history...I suspect this work will quickly become a classic in its field and can serve as a model for the comparative study of the effects of the Black Death in other regions of the world." Uli Schamiloglu, Chair, Central Asian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison "This book is unique. It has no parallel in the field of pre-modern Middle Eastern history. More broadly, it represents the perceptive result of a study conceived on a scale that enables a set of persuasive comparisons between two major states of the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds. Nothing like this has been attempted so far. No scholar has made such creative use of available primary sources from Egypt." Carl F. Petry, Professor of History, Northwestern UniversityTable of Contents A Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Plague and Methodology Chapter 2. Mortality, Irrigation, and Landholders in Mamluk Egypt Chapter 3. The Impact of the Plagues on the Rural Economy of Egypt Chapter 4. The Impact of the Plagues on the Rural Economy of England Chapter 5. The Dinar Jayshi and Agrarian Output in England and Egypt Chapter 6. Prices and Wages: A Reevaluation Chapter 7. Conclusion Appendix. The Marginal Product of Labor Reconsidered Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of medical encounters between the Islamic sultanate of Morocco and the Republic of France from 1877 to 1956.Drawing on a wealth of primary sources in both French and Arabic, Ellen Amster investigates the positivist ambitions of French colonial doctors, sociologists, philologists, and historians; the social history of the encounters and transformations occasioned by French medical interventions; and the ways in which Moroccan nationalists ultimately appropriated a French model of modernity to invent the independent nation-state. Each chapter of the book addresses a different probTrade ReviewMedicine and the Saints offers readers a complex analysis and interpretation of French colonialism in Morocco... * American Historical Review *Medicine and the Saints challenges the very notion of modernity and provides fresh insight into contemporary questions of post-colonial epistemologies of personal and social health. This book is essential for scholars interested in social life at the interstices of colonial-modern Morocco. * Social History of Medicine *Table of Contents Foreword by Rajae El Aoued Acknowledgments Introduction: Colonial Embodiments Chapter 1. Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints and God's Law in a Corporeal City of Virtue Chapter 2. Medicine and the Mission Civilisatrice: A Civilizing Science and the French Sociology of Islam in Algeria and Morocco, 1830–1912 Chapter 3. The Many Deaths of Dr. Émile Mauchamp: Contested Sovereignties and Body Politics at the Court of the Sultans, 1877–1912 Chapter 4. Frédéric Le Play in Morocco? The Paradoxes of French Hygiene and Colonial Association in the Moroccan City, 1912–1937 Chapter 5. Harem Medicine and the Sleeping Child: Law, Traditional Pharmacology, and the Gender of Medical Authority Chapter 6. A Midwife to Modernity: The Biopolitics of Colonial Welfare and Birthing a Scientific Moroccan Nation, 1936-1956 Epilogue. Epistemologies Embodied: Islam, France, and the Postcolonial Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Groundbreaking. . . . Explores not only the textual interplay of novel medicine and medical fiction, but also their roles as important literary genres in disseminating vernacular knowledge about health, illness, healing, and the body." -- Robert E. Hegel * Nan Nu: Men, Women, & Gender in China *"Offers exciting new literary and historical methods for unraveling the many intersections between medicine and literature that should be of great interest to readers engaged with the medical humanities, the cultural history of medicine, and late imperial Chinese history." -- Marta Hanson * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *"Novel Medicine is an innovative comparison of medical lore and fictional practice. . . . This is an important study, one that should be read by anyone seriously interested in late imperial Chinese culture; it demonstrates the interactions between realms of knowledge that modern specialized fields so easily overlook." -- Harry Yi-Jui Wu * Medical History *"This book is a highly original contribution to the scholarship on traditional Chinese fiction. I very much hope that students of traditional Chinese medicine (and of the introduction of Western medicine into China) will find this work equally fascinating and enlightening." -- Wilt L. Idema * Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS) *"Like an early Chinese novel, Andrew Schonebaum’s book Novel Medicine both informs and titillates. . . . This is innovative scholarship. . . . Schonebaum’s expansive conception and meticulous research make Novel Medicine an eye-opening read, one that I particularly recommend to historians of medicine and of gender and sexuality." -- Hilary A. Smith * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Andrew Schonebaum has written an insightful and original historical work on popular medicine and literature in late imperial China." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Novel Medicine offers an intriguing opportunity to reorient the study of Chinese medical history toward a broader categorization of ‘medical texts,’ and therefore a more accurate understanding of late imperial worldviews and medical beliefs. . . . Schonebaum’s fascinating subject matter provides a thoroughly engaging read." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) - Modern *"Straddling the lines between fields like Chinese literature, medical history, and even gender studies, Novel Medicine is eye-opening in its interdisciplinary rigor." * Asian Medicine *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Healing with Poisons contradicts the romantic fallacy of viewing traditional medicines as toxin-free remedies and proposes a new scope to reconceptualize the poisons used in medieval China. His study inspires us to rethink the relationships among drugs, cultures, and human bodies in the past and present." * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *"Liu writes with an accessible, clear and inviting voice. It will prove to be excellent material for teaching in cross-cultural contexts... This nimble and accessible book will surely lay the foundation for more adventurous studies to follow." * Social History of Medicine *"Based on a comprehensive study of the most significant Chinese texts, Liu offers a clear exposition for advanced students and specialists of the development of these medicines and provides a list of some of the most important drugs and their uses." * Choice *"Scholars will find this fascinating exploration of Chinese pharmacology a pleasure to read, with short, well-structured chapters and a coherent arc to the argument throughout." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Liu Yan offers a most remarkable and so far uniquely informative account of the social, economic, political and structural context of medicine and pharmaceutical learning and practice in China in the first millennium CE." * Monumenta Serica *"Healing with Poisons masterfully weaves together the histories of medicine and the body." * World History Encyclopedia *"Liu has adroitly interwoven histories of politics, religions, social, and economic histories at opportune moments to elucidate how medicine, particularly potent substances, worked within emerging intellectual frameworks of xuanxue (mysterious or dark learning) and competing religious traditions of Buddhism and Daoism." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"This scholarly, well-referenced work explores China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE) when poisons were considered potent healing agents. Toxic plants provided cures for everything from simple abdominal pain to epidemic diseases. Practitioners devised techniques to transform them into effective medicines, incorporating the concept of du, or “potency.” Many old methods are still employed today. Liu...gives insight into the Medieval healing philosophy and its influence on modern Chinese medicine." * American Herb Association Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisHow early print culture reshaped strategies for presenting medical knowledgeWhy and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in China? This question is at the heart of Good Formulas, the first book-length study of the use of empirical evidence in Chinese medicine between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. The rise of this new approach to substantiating knowledge, which had appeared only sporadically in earlier medical literature, provides a window into transformations in the construction of textual authority in mid-imperial China. Focusing on medical genres and working extensively with notebooks (biji), Ruth Yun-Ju Chen shows that employing empirical evidence became prominent in conjunction with a publishing boom that enabled wider availability of medical texts and treatises. To convince a more socioculturally diverse readership to believe their claims and to win intertextual debates with contemporaneous authors, many Song me

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Book SynopsisIs opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights.Trade Review“Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream by Thomas Dormandy, is that rare thing: both an extraordinary work of scholarship and a rip-roaring read.”—Rebecca Rose, Prospect -- Rebecca Rose * Prospect *“Thomas Dormandy is an elegant, dryly amusing writer who plainly has an unquenchable appetite for research.”—John Preston, Daily Mail -- John Preston * Daily Mail *“Rich and engaging . . . a rare triumph.”—Washington Post * Washington Post *“…[A] lively and fascinating chronicle of opium…The book is a remarkable synthesis of different fields of knowledge.”—Peter Swabb, Daily Telegraph -- Peter Swabb * Daily Telegraph *“…[A] scholarly yet wonderfully readable book.”—Teresa Levonian Cole, Country Life -- Teresa Levonian Cole * Country Life *"Rich in stories and an entertaining read, Dr Dormandy has traced the many lives of opium, from the Stone Age to the War of Terror." —Yangwen Zheng, BBC History Magazine -- Yangwen Zheng * BBC History Magazine *“A wide-ranging and highly engaging history of one of the world’s most prominent (and most addictive) narcotics."—Library Journal * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisA vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plagueTrade Review“John Henderson's analysis of the context and quality of local government in an early modern Italian city stands out as a major work of historical scholarship”—Anne Hardy, Times Literary SupplementLonglisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University Special commendation in the 2021 Social History Society Book Prize“Henderson offers a holistic account of plague in seventeenth-century Florence and reaches important new conclusions about the impact and effectiveness of public health measures. The fine detail of the story makes for a brilliant realisation of devastation, resistance and survival.”—Vanessa Harding, author of The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670“In this vivid account, Henderson brings to life the fearful experiences of Florentines as they prepared, dealt with, and lived through an early modern public health crisis … Essential reading.”—Brian Maxson, author of The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence“With a keen attention to gender, power and social networks, Henderson traces a vivid picture of resilience and survival through the complex interplay of plague and piety.”—Giulia Calvi, author of Histories of a Plague Year“Henderson draws on a striking range of sources to present a human-scale fresco. He shows how townspeople, eager to save their souls as much as their skin, strove to cope and survive each in their own way … Re-sets our understanding of what plague meant at every level of early modern society to those caught up in it.”—Colin Jones, author of The Medical World of Early Modern France

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Excellent...This is a terrific book and comes highly recommended."—Samantha Williams, Family & Community History“[A] fine addition to Siena’s existing body of work on pre-modern disease and an excellent reminder that the history of medicine forms an integral part of political, economic, and social history.”—Dr Michelle Webb, Reviews in History“Rotten Bodies’ illuminating discussion of medical discourse on epidemic disease offers a valuable corrective… Siena’s mastery of the medical sources relating to his subject over the longue durée (and an unaccustomed longue durée at that) will be of considerable value to medical, cultural and social historians of the eighteenth century, and indeed those scholars working on the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries too.”—Neil Davie, Books & Ideas [Journal]“Fear – fear of contagion and fear of the poor animated eighteenth-century Britain. Kevin Siena’s Rotten Bodies supplies an all-important new understanding of the histories of poverty, class and race.”—Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London“Kevin Siena has produced a lively, smart, and thoughtful history of the pestilential ‘plebeian body’ and the fears it produced throughout the long eighteenth century. As it moves through sites as varied as debtors prisons, slums, cotton-mill towns, and the homes of the poor, this book insists on both the centrality of class as a category of analysis for medicine in the Age of Reason and the importance of medicine for the history of emergent conceptions of class. It is a work sure both to challenge and reinvigorate the history of medicine and British intellectual and social history more broadly.”—Suman Seth, Cornell University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A rare and nuanced scholarly effort that always remains engaging and delightful. As with any memorable journey, at the end we more deeply understand and feel our own point of departure.”—Ted J. Kaptchuk, author of The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine “This wonderfully challenging book is an induction into another world, a translation between traditional Chinese medicine and Western post-Enlightenment bio-medicine. Judith Farquhar guides us expertly through the things, thoughts, and actions of these mutually understandable worlds.”—Stephan Feuchtwang, author of Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor “Farquhar expertly translates the materials and practices of traditional Chinese medicine into a vision for concrete action in a world that is always in the midst of becoming.”—Carla Nappi, author of The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China “Farquhar guides the reader expertly through the multiple discourses of the art of Chinese medicine. Her translations capture with clarity and passion an expertise in interpreting the living body that, while rooted in the Chinese classics, nevertheless achieves a commonplace universality; in her own words, ‘a space beyond cultural difference, beyond linguistic translation, and beyond the merely conceptual.’”—Vivienne Lo, coeditor of Imagining Chinese Medicine “Written with delicate yet exact prose and pertinent use of cosmopolitan erudition, this book allows the reader to think about medicine through the localized specificities of its practices wherever those are. This book is an achievement—an immensely inspiring one.”—Marisol de la Cadena, author of Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds “Judith Farquhar’s beautiful book is a profound but accessible meditation on the very different world of Chinese medicine. It unsettles Western ways of thinking to recast how we think about the relations between science and religion.”—John Law, author of After Method: Mess in Social Science Research “A Way of Life is an exceptionally illuminating account of the concepts and practices of traditional Chinese medicine and their problematic relationship with Western biomedicine. Judith Farquhar effectively challenges some of the defining assumptions and categories of classical epistemology and contemporary philosophy of science.”—Barbara Herrnstein Smith, author of Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion“Judith Farquhar’s anthropological and linguistic focus is novel, making this book a welcome addition to the sometimes-confusing works that attempt to ‘translate’ Chinese medicine for a Western reader.”—William C. Summers, author of The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910–1911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease“A Way of Life is original, creative scholarship of the highest quality, presented in lovely and stylish prose. It is truly a pleasure to read.”—Dale Martin, author of Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century and of Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation“Following in the footsteps of Joseph Needham, the renowned historian of Chinese thought, Judith Farquhar here blazes her own path. Using Chinese medicine as her lamp, she leads us through the misty mountains of ‘science’ and ‘religion,’ pointing out the pitfalls of translation along the way. She does so with erudition and eloquence.”—Donald Lopez, author of The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life“A Way of Life distills decades of anthropological and philosophical study of Chinese medical practice, in which Judith Farquhar was authoritatively trained, into an introduction as lucid as it is deep.”—Nathan Sivin, author of Health Care in Eleventh-Century China

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Book SynopsisThe fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.Trade Review"A Good Time to be Born is an ambitious, elegant meditation on what the doctor-writer Perri Klass describes as one of our greatest human achievements: a reduction in child mortality... [Klass] takes the most complex human patterns of all—history, medicine, politics, art—and knits them into something unique and beautiful... This is an important book for many reasons, but that Klass has given voice to the voiceless is perhaps the most significant." -- The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live

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Book SynopsisWhile the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind of the era were prominent across a wide range of professions. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Map of Japan in the Tokugawa (Edo) Period (1600–1868) Map of Japan: Modern Regions and Prefectures Abbreviated List of Historical Periods A Note on Japanese Terminology and Names AcknowledgmentsPreface: A Personal NoteIntroductionChapter 1 Japanese Ophthalmology: Medical Studies of Eye ConditionsChapter 2 Eye Medicines: The Popular Culture of CureChapter 3 The Blind Guild: Status and PowerChapter 4 Non-Membership and the Challenge of AuthorityChapter 5 Texts and Performances: The Significance of One Blind Musician’s CareerChapter 6 Healing by Touch: Blind Acupuncturists and MasseursEpilogue Onward to the Meiji PeriodBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers an in-depth look at the Rockefeller Foundation's earliest ventures in international health. This study takes into account the late 19th-century backdrop and considers events through to about 1930 when most of the International Health Board hookworm campaigns had evolved into public health projects of a different nature.

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Book SynopsisThe blind of Tokugawa period Japan were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able to exert contractual monopolies over certain trades. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations, and the power and respect that accrued to the guild members.Table of Contents Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Map of Japan in the Tokugawa (Edo) Period (1600–1868) Map of Japan: Modern Regions and Prefectures Abbreviated List of Historical Periods A Note on Japanese Terminology and Names Acknowledgments Preface: A Personal Note Introduction Chapter 1 Japanese Ophthalmology: Medical Studies of Eye Conditions Chapter 2 Eye Medicines: The Popular Culture of Cure Chapter 3 The Blind Guild: Status and Power Chapter 4 Non-Membership and the Challenge of Authority Chapter 5 Texts and Performances: The Significance of One Blind Musician’s Career Chapter 6 Healing by Touch: Blind Acupuncturists and Masseurs Epilogue Onward to the Meiji Period Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States, this work tells the story of how vaccination became a widely accepted public health measure over the course of the twentieth century. It examines the strategies that health officials have used to gain public acceptance of vaccines.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Daniel M. Fox Acknowledgments Introduction: Vaccination Politics and Law in American History 1. Between Persuasion and Compulsion: Vaccination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2. Science in a Democracy: Smallpox Vaccination in the Progressive Era and the 1920s 3. Diphtheria Immunization: The Power, and the Limits, of Persuasion 4. Hard Cores and Soft Spots: Selling the Polio Vaccine 5. Eradicationism and Its Discontents 6. Consent, Compulsion, and Compensation: Vaccination Programs in Crisis 7. Expansion and Backlash: Vaccination at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Notes Archival Sources Index

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Book SynopsisPublic health has made our lives safer - but it often works behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, 'while we are sleeping'. This book illuminates how public health works with more than sixty success stories drawn from the area of injury and violence prevention.Trade Review"Faculty teaching courses in injury prevention will find this a useful addition to their syllabi... It also may help inspire the next generation of researchers and practitioners." Injury Prevention "This book is well written and shows that public health covers a lot of areas." Annuals Of Emergency MedicineTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction Poem: The Ambulance in the Valley, by Joseph Mahin 1. Car 2. Home 3. Work 4. Play 5. Nature 6. Violence 7. Medical Treatment 8. Models of Injury Prevention 9. Future Successes 10. Summary Appendix: Scientific Injury Studies References Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the hidden ways in which presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, this title shows what history can teach us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"A riveting history of health-care politics." -- Atul Gawande New Yorker "A book that sets a standard for the study of the presidency and of health policy." Congress & The Presidency "This timely and insightful book puts Barack Obama's current quest for universal health insurance in historical context and gives new meaning to the audacity of hope." -- Robert B. Reich New York Times Book Review "More than an excellent primer on American health policy, the book offers a thorough, incisive look at the presidency as an institution and the men who have occupied the office." STARRED REVIEW Publishers Weekly "A masterpiece and a valuable primer for future presidents as they wrestle with the dragon of health reform." -- Jeff Goldsmith Health AffairsTable of ContentsPreface to the 2010 Edition 2009 Preface and Acknowledgments introduction 1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt The Enigmatic Angler 2. Harry S. Truman We’ll Take the Starch Out of Them—Eventually 3. Dwight D. Eisenhower Compassionate Conservative 4. John F. Kennedy The Charismatic with a Stricken Father 5. Lyndon B. Johnson The Secret History of Medicare 6. Richard Nixon A Flower That Bloomed Only in the Dark 7. Jimmy Carter The Righteous Engineer 8. Ronald Reagan Socialized Medicine and the Working Stiff 9. George Herbert Walker Bush Stick to the Running Game 10. Bill Clinton Kicking the Can Down the Road 11. George W. Bush Bring It On—Reforming Medicare Conclusion Eight Rules for the Heart of Power Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhen and how did public health become modern? This book offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health.Trade Review"The value of the book lies in its impressive command of detail." * Journal of Modern History *"Crook has done much... [his] fine book gives me hope that historians will come back to (or, more properly, discover for the first time) a kind of research immensely important to the understanding of the present and the recent past, and long neglected." * Reviews in History *"This book should inspire a good debate in the urban history and the public health subfield over Crook’s argument for a revolutionary discourse of systems." * American Historical Review *"Crook presents a sophisticated new interpretation of the English route to modernity... this is a very stimulating book that takes a series of traditional urban history debates and casts them in a very different light, both renaming and re-thinking many of the old problems." * Social History of Medicine *"Tom Crook has produced something of a tour de force, finding an original take on a subject already much traversed by accomplished scholars such as Anne Hardy and Christopher Hamlin. The result is a pleasure to read: the writing lyrical and lucid, and the text moving easily between theoretical frames and rich empirical exposition." * Cultural and Social History *"A fascinating proposal of how to study technological systems in the nineteenth century." * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. In Search of Hygeia: Systems, Modernity, and Public Health 2. A Perfect Chaos: Centralization and the Struggle for National System 3. Numbers, Norms, and Opinions: Death and the Measurement of Progress 4. Officialism: The Art and Practice of Sanitary Inspection 5. Matter in Its Right Place: Technology and the Building of Waste Disposal Systems 6. Stamping Out: Logistics, Risk, and Infectious Diseases 7. Personal Hygiene: Cleanliness, Class, and the Habitual Self 8. Conclusion: Systems, Variations, Politics Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome. Covering a wide array of fascinating topicssuch as ancient diagnostic practices using the pulse and urine, gynecological theories of women's illness, treatments involving drugs and surgery, the training and work of physicians, the experiences of patients, and various sites where healing took placethis volume will engage readers interested in the rich history of health and healthcare. The volume brings together textual sourcesmany hard to access and some translated into English for the first timeas well as artistic, material, and scientific evidence, including: Medical treatises Case studies Artistic works Material artifacts Archaeological evidence Biomedical remains Funerary monuments Miracle narratives Spells and magical recipes With substantial explanation of these varied materialsthrough background chapters, introductions to the thematic chapters, a timeline, and Trade Review"An admirably imaginative, clear, wide-ranging, informative and stimulating introduction to ancient medicine." * Classics for All *

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Book SynopsisThe seven distinguished contributors to this volume illuminate not only the history of the biological and medical sciences but also the relationship between institutes and ideas which characterized the explosion of scientific investigation, especially in Germany. Besides William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes, they include Robert G. Frank, Jr., Timothy Lenoir, John E. Lesch, Kathryn M. Olesko, and Arlene M. Tuchman. Scientific investigation was not new to the nineteenth century, but it was during that period that it began to be carried out on a scale large enough to become crucial to the welfare of nations. Much remains to be learned about how the forms of organization characteristic of the modern investigative enterprise originated. This book explores such questions in relation to one of the dominant experimental sciences of the century, physiology. Each author shows, through the examination of a specific institute or a specific subject, that the interplay between research, pedagogy, personal vision, and state or public interests can be studied to particular advantage in localized settings.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Preface: Encountering the Photographs Note on Language Chronology of Significant Events Map of Hawaiian Islands Introduction: An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin 1 • Ocular Experiments and Unruly Technologies of the Body 2 • A Criminal Archive of Skin 3 • Dressing the Body: Laundry and the Intimacy of Care 4 • Dreaming in Pictures: Queer Kinship and Subaltern Family Albums Epilogue: Healing Encounters at the Settlement Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Prolegomena. 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature. 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu. 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593). 2. Notes on the Translation. 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590. 4. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu 本草綱目. Chapters 5 - 11. Section Waters. Chapter 5 Group I: Waters of Heaven Group II: Waters of the Earth Section Fires. Chapter 6 Section Soils. Chapter 7 Section Metals and Stones. Chapter 8 Group I: Metals Group II: Jades Section Stones. Chapter 9 Group III: Stones Chapter 10: Section of Stones Group IV: Stones Section Stones. Chapter 11 Group V: Salt Stones/Minerals Appendix 5. Weights and measures. 5.1 Measures of capacity. 5.2 Measures of weight. 5.3 Measures of length. 5.4 Measures of the size of pills. 6. Appendix Pharmaceutical Substances of Plant Origin mentioned in BCGM ch 5 – 11 in passing. By Ulrike Unschuld

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Book SynopsisVolume VIII in theBen cao gang museries offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals with shells. TheBen cao gang muis a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (15181593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of theBen cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.Table of Contents1. Prolegomena 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593) 2. Notes on the Translation 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590 4. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu. Chapters 38 - 46 Section Clothes and Utensils. Chapter 38 Group: Clothes and Silk Group: Utensils and Further Items Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 39 Worms/Bugs I.Born from Eggs Group, First Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 40 Worms/Bugs II. Born from Eggs. Final Group Section Worms/Bugs. Chapter 41 Worms/Bugs III. Born from Transformation Group. Section Bugs Worms/Bugs. Chapter 42 Worms/Bugs IV. Born from Moisture Group. Section [Animals with] Scales. Chapter 43. [Animals with] Scales I. Dragon Group. [Animals with] Scales II. Snake Group. Section [Animals with] Scales. Chapter 44 [Animals with] Scales III. [Animals with] Scales IV. Fish without Scales. Section [Animals with] Shells. Chapter 45 Shells I. Tortoises and Tortoises Group. Section [Animals with] Shells. Chapter 46 Shells II. Clams Group. Appendix 5. Weights and measures. 5.1 Measures of capacity. 5.2 Measures of weight. 5.3 Measures of length. 5.4 Measures of the size of pills. 6. Appendix Pharmaceutical Substances of Plant Origin mentioned in BCGM ch 38 – 46 in passing. By Ulrike Unschuld.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsProlegomena 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593) 2. Notes on the Translation 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590 4. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu 本草綱目. Chapters 47 - 52 Fowl I. Water Fowl, Chapter 47 Fowl II. Land Fowl. Chapter 48 Fowl III. Forest fowl. Chapter 49 Fowl IV. Mountain Fowl Group 11 Four Legged Animals I. Domestic Animals. Chapter 50 Four Legged Animals II. Section Wild Animals. Chapter 51 Four Legged Animals III. Section Wild Animals Four Legged Animals IV. Section Residential and Strange [Animals] Human [Substances] I, Chapter 51 Appendix 5. Weights and measures. 5.1 Measures of capacity. 5.2 Measures of weight. 5.3 Measures of length. 5.4 Measures of the size of pills. 6. Appendix Pharmaceutical Substances of Plant Origin mentioned in BCGM ch 47 – 52 in passing. By Ulrike Unschuld.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsCONTENTS 1. Prolegomena 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature 1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu 1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 – 1593) 2. Notes on the Translation 3. Wang Shizhen’s preface of 1590 4. Translation of the Ben Cao Gang Mu 本草綱目 Chapters 12 - 14 Herbs I, Mountain Herbs, Chapter 12 Herbs II, Mountain Herbs, Chapter 13 Herbs III, Fragrant Herbs, Chapter 14 Appendix 5. Weights and measures 5.1 Measures of capacity 5.2 Measures of weight 5.3 Measures of length 5.4 Measures of the size of pills 6. Lists of Substances 6.1 Identification of pharmaceutical substances of plant origin mentioned in BCGM ch. 12 - 14 6.2 Substances discussed in chapters 12 – 14 6.3 Currently accepted scientific identification of substances discussed in BCGM ch. 12 – 14

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