Overview

This text 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. I t seeks answers in topics such as the history of tactile knowledge, the relationship between the ways of seeing and ways of listening, and the evolution of blood-letting.

Full Product Details

9780942299892

Table of Contents

Reviews

...this is an astonishingly original reading of early medicine in China and the West, yet one that builds its case with scrupulous scholarship... A great achievement! --Arthur Kleinman, Harvard Medical School

Author Information

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.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available