{"product_id":"reorienting-histories-of-medicine-9781350195820","title":"ReOrienting Histories of Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonit Yoeli-Tlalim \u003c\/b\u003eis Reader in History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRashid al-Din: Agent and mediator of cultural exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), \u003ci\u003eIslam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eAstro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West\u003c\/i\u003e (2008).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRonit Yoeli-Tlalim is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and significant  historians of Asian medicine active today. ... while \u003ci\u003eReOrienting \u003c\/i\u003eis both informative and  theoretically sophisticated, it is also quite readable. * Buddhist Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003eRonit 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 *\u003cbr\u003eCompact and readable, and yet richly informative about the interactions between a wonderful diversity of linguistic and scholarly traditions, \u003ci\u003eReOrienting Histories of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eYoeli-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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084835451223,"sku":"9781350195820","price":35.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reorienting-histories-of-medicine-9781350195820","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}