Chinese Traditional Healing Set: The Berlin Collections of Manuscript Volumes from the 16th Through the Early 20th Century

by Jinsheng Zheng, Paul Unschuld, Paul U. Unschuld

Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004225250
• ISBN13: 9789004225251
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 2848 Pages
• Weight: 10.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 6.6" x 9.8"