Translation at Work: Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age

by Harold J. Cook

During the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and meaning. The contributors to this volume examine occasions when intermediaries responded creatively to aspects of Chinese medicine, whether by trying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004362746
• ISBN13: 9789004362741
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"