Early Chinese Medical Literature
First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.
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Early Chinese Medical Literature
First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.
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Early Chinese Medical Literature

Early Chinese Medical Literature

by Donald Harper
Early Chinese Medical Literature

Early Chinese Medical Literature

by Donald Harper

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First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.

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ISBN-13: 9781138968080
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/26/2015
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 562
Product dimensions: 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

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Translated and edited by Donald Harper

Table of Contents

Section One: Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts; Manuscript Discovery, List of Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts and Texts, Other Excavated Manuscripts Related to Medicine, Provenance and Hermeneutic Issues, Section Two: Medicine, Medical Literature, Medical Men; Recipes, Techniques, Calculations, Arts, Readership and Transmission Section Three: Medical Ideas and Practices: Illness, Physiology, Therapy, Materia Medica Section Four: Macrobiotic Hygiene: Intellectual Background, Body and Spirit, Techniques, Philosophy and Macrobiotic Hygiene Section Five: Magic: Magical Recipes, Varieties of Magic, Recipes of Yue; Translation
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