The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine - Brossura

Kuriyama, Shigehisa

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ISBN 10: 0942299892 ISBN 13: 9780942299892

Casa editrice: Zone Books, 2002

Riassunto

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

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

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

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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Zone Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0942299892
• ISBN 13: 9780942299892
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 344
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile