Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War

by Andrew Edmund Goble

Confluences of Medicine is the first book-length exploration in English of issues of medicine and society in premodern Japan. This multifaceted study weaves a rich tapestry of Buddhist healing practices, Chinese medical knowledge, Asian pharmaceuticals, and Islamic formulas as it elucidates their appropriation and integration into medieval Japanese medicine. It expands the parameters of the study of medicine in East Asia, which to date has focused...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082483500X
• ISBN13: 9780824835002
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"