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Book SynopsisRonit Yoeli-Tlalim is Reader in History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of
Rashid al-Din: Agent and mediator of cultural exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (2013),
Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (2010) and
Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (2008).
Trade ReviewRonit Yoeli-Tlalim is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and significant historians of Asian medicine active today. ... while
ReOrienting is both informative and theoretically sophisticated, it is also quite readable. * Buddhist Studies Review *
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim draws on materials from the Bower Manuscript, the Genizah repository in Cairo, and cave 17 in Dunhuang to explain how medical knowledge moved across cultural contact zones and spread through Eurasia. Through reading sources in an unusual combination of languages, this study constitutes an impressive breakthrough in Silk Road studies. * Valerie Hansen, Professor of History, Yale University, USA *
Compact and readable, and yet richly informative about the interactions between a wonderful diversity of linguistic and scholarly traditions,
ReOrienting Histories of Medicine will now be the first book that I recommend to students for orientation about the early history of Eurasian medical exchange. * Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard University, USA *
Yoeli-Tlalim synthesizes an impressive range of complex source material and disciplines from history of science and medicine to Tibetan studies and Jewish studies. She makes a valuable niche contribution while simultaneously making big, broad interventions on the Eurasian question ... Her book represents a fantastic archive through which other historians and an English-language readership can build fruitful frameworks that inject ever greater nuance and scale into histories of the Silk Road. * The British Journal for the History of Science *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Transliterations and Abbreviations Introduction: Medical Encounters along the Silk Roads 1. Narrating Eurasian Origins of Medical Knowledge 2. Of Dice and Medicine: Interactions in Central Asian ‘Contact Zones’ 3. Myrobalans: The Making of a Eurasian Panacea 4. Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang: Practices and Images on the Move 5. Medicine of the Bakhshis: Cross-Pollinations in Buddhist Iran Afterword Bibliography Index
