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Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy
Paul U. Unschuld
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Hardback. The Ling Shu, also known as the Ling Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Nan Jing. It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition. This is an English translation of all eighty-one chapters, and notes on difficult-to-grasp passages. Num Pages: 798 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; VXHT1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1204.
The Ling Shu, also known as the Ling Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Nan Jing. It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this day. Its therapeutic approach is based on a purely secular science of nature, with natural laws serving as guidelines for human behavior and medical treatment. No other text offers such broad insights into the thinking and manifest action of the authors of the time. Following an introduction, this volume contains the full original Chinese text of ... Read more
The Ling Shu, also known as the Ling Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Nan Jing. It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this day. Its therapeutic approach is based on a purely secular science of nature, with natural laws serving as guidelines for human behavior and medical treatment. No other text offers such broad insights into the thinking and manifest action of the authors of the time. Following an introduction, this volume contains the full original Chinese text of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
798
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520292253
SKU
V9780520292253
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About Paul U. Unschuld
Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Endowment Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charite-Medical University, Berlin. His previous books include Medicine in China: A History of Ideas and What is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Health Care.
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Seasoned familiarity with the text from decades of study, and the rich battery of critical tools supplied in these publications mark a profound turning point. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine