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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Shigehisa Kuriyama
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Paperback. The Expressiveness of the Body meditates on the contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. Num Pages: 344 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; MBX; MFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 540.
A meditation on the human body as described by the classical Greeks and by the ancient Chinese. At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma. The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. The Expressiveness of the Body meditates on the contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body ... Read more
A meditation on the human body as described by the classical Greeks and by the ancient Chinese. At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma. The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. The Expressiveness of the Body meditates on the contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780942299892
SKU
V9780942299892
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About Shigehisa Kuriyama
Shigehisa Kuriyama is Associate Professor and Staff Researcher at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
Reviews for The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
...this is an astonishingly original reading of early medicine inChina and the West, yet one that builds its case with scrupulousscholarship... A great achievement! Arthur Kleinman, Harvard Medical School