1st Edition

Early Chinese Medical Literature

By Donald Harper Copyright 1998
    562 Pages
    by Routledge

    562 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.

    Section One: Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts; Manuscript Discovery, List of Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts and Texts, Other Excavated Manuscripts Related to Medicine, Provenance and Hermeneutic Issues, Section Two: Medicine, Medical Literature, Medical Men; Recipes, Techniques, Calculations, Arts, Readership and Transmission Section Three: Medical Ideas and Practices: Illness, Physiology, Therapy, Materia Medica Section Four: Macrobiotic Hygiene: Intellectual Background, Body and Spirit, Techniques, Philosophy and Macrobiotic Hygiene Section Five: Magic: Magical Recipes, Varieties of Magic, Recipes of Yue; Translation

    Biography

    Translated and edited by Donald Harper