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Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts PDF Author: Linda L. BARNES
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475

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