The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the globalisation of Chinese products and practices in the present day, taking in subjects from ancient medical writings to therapeutic movement, to talismans for healing and traditional medicines that have inspired global solutions to contemporary epidemics. The volume is divided into seven parts:
Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions Sickness and Healing Food and Sex Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices The World of Sinographic Medicine Wider Diasporas Negotiating Modernity
This handbook therefore introduces the broad range of ideas and techniques that comprise pre-modern medicine in China, and the historiographical and ethnographic approaches that have illuminated them. It will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, and the history of medicine and anthropology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, patients and specialists wishing to refresh their knowledge with the latest developments in the field.
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Part 1: Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions,
1.
Yin, Yang and Five Agents (Wuxing) in the Basic Questions and Early Han (202
BCE220 CE) Medical Manuscripts,
2. Qi : a Means for Cohering Natural
Knowledge,
3. Re-envisioning Chinese Medicine: the view from archaeology,
4.
The Importance of Numerology, Part I: state ritual and medicine,
5. The
Importance of Numerology, Part II: medicine: an overview of the application
of numbers in Huangdi neijing,
6. Therapeutic Exercise in the Medical
Practice of Sui China (581618 CE),
7. The Canonicity of the Yellow Emperors
Inner Classic: Han through Song,
8. Pre-standardised Pharmacology: Han
through Song,
9. Chace, C. Developments in Chinese Medicine from the Song
through the Qing, Part 2: Sickness and Healing,
10. Ancient Pulse Taking,
Complexion and the Rise of Tongue Diagnosis in Modern China,
11. Case Records
Yi'an,
12. Acupuncture Illustrations,
13. Anatomy and Surgery,
14. History of
Disease: pre-Han to Qing,
15. Pre-modern Madness,
16. Late Imperial
Epidemiology, Part 1: from retrospective diagnosis to epidemics as diagnostic
lens for other ends, 1870s to 1970s,
17. Late Imperial Epidemiology, Part 2:
new material and conceptual methods, 1980s to 2010s,
18. Folk Medicine of the
Qing and Republican Periods: a review of therapies in Unschuld's Berlin
Manuscripts, Part 3: Food and Sex,
19. What not to Eat How Not to Treat:
medical prohibitions,
20. Chinese Traditional Medicine and Diet,
21. Food and
Dietary Medicine in Chinese Herbal Literature and Beyond,
22. The Sexual Body
Techniques of Early and Medieval China: Underlying Emic Theories and Basic
Methods of a Non-Reproductive Sexual Scenario for Non-Same-Sex Partners,
23.
Sexing the Chinese Medical body: pre-modern Chinese medicine through the lens
of gender,
24. Gynaecology and Obstetrics from the Tang to the early 21st
century,
25. The Question of Sex and Modernity in China, Part 1: from xing to
sexual cultivation,
26. The Question of Sex and Modernity in China, Part 2:
from new ageism to sexual happiness Part 4: Spiritual and Orthodox Religious
Practices,
27. Daoism and Chinese Medicine,
28. Buddhist Medicine: overview
of concepts, practices, texts and translations,
29. Time in Chinese Alchemy,
30. Daoist Sexual Practices for Health and Immortality for Women,
31.
Junqueira, L.F.B. Numinous Herbs: stars, spirits and medicinal plants in Late
Imperial China, Part 5: The World of Sinographic Medicine: a diversity of
interlinked traditions,
32. Transmission of Persian Medicine into China
across the Ages,
33. Vietnam in the Pre-Modern Period,
34. History and
Characteristics of Korean Medicine,
35. Chinese-style Medicine in Japan,
36.
A Brief History of Chinese Medicine in Singapore,
37. Minority Medicine, Part
6: Wider Diasporas,
38. Early Modern Reception in Europe: translations and
transmissions,
39. The Emergence of the Practice of Acupuncture on the
Medical Landscape of France and Italy in the Twentieth Century,
40. Entangled
Worlds: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States,
41. The Migration
of Acupuncture through the Imperium Hispanicum: case studies from Cuba,
Guatemala and the Philippines,
42. Long and Winding Roads: the transfer of
Chinese medical practices to African contexts,
43. Translating Chinese
Medicine in the West: language, culture, and practice, Part 7: Negotiating
Modernity,
44. The Declaration of Alma Ata: the global adoption of a Maoist
model for Universal Healthcare,
45. Communist Medicine: the emergence of TCM
and barefoot doctors, leading to contemporary medical markets,
46. Contested
Medicines in Twentieth-Century China,
47. Public Health in Twentieth-Century
China,
48. Encounters with Linnaeus? Modernisation of Pharmacopoeia through
Bernard Read and Zhao Yuhuang up to the Present,
49. Yangsheng in the Twenty
First Century: embodiment, belief and collusion,
50. Liquorice and Chinese
Herbal Medicine: an epistemological challenge,
51. Decontextualised Chinese
Medicines: their use as health foods and medicines in the global North
Vivienne Lo is Professor of Chinese History at University College London. She has published widely on the ancient and medieval history of medicine in China and in diaspora. Her research interests include medical manuscripts, medical imagery and the history of nutrition.
Michael Stanley-Baker is Assistant Professor in History at the School of Humanities, and of Medical Humanities at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. An historian of Chinese medicine and religion, particularly Daoism, he works on the early imperial period as well as contemporary Sinophone communities. Currently completing a monograph on medicine and religion as related genres of practice in China, he also produces digital humanities tools and datasets to study the migration of medicine across spatio-temporal, intellectual and linguistic boundaries.
Dolly Yang is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She received a PhD in 2018 from University College London for her investigation into the institutionalisation of therapeutic exercise in Sui China (581618 CE). She has a particular interest in examining the use of non-drug-based therapy in early medieval China, allied to a passion for translating and analysing ancient Chinese medical and self-cultivation texts.
