Reorienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads

by Ronit Yoeli-tlalim

Book Overview

It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world - Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz - the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147251257X
• ISBN13: 9781472512574
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"