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Science and Civilisation in China

Part 6. Medicine

Part of Science and Civilisation in China

Author: Joseph Needham
Editor: Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania

Date Published: April 2000
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521632621

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The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction discusses these essays, placing them in their historical and medical context, and surveys recent medical discoveries from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.
- Informative and authoritative volume on Chinese medical tradition, which combines history, a survey of recent discoveries and a comprehensive bibliography
- A further contribution to the Needham Science and Civilization series
- Editor is a well-known Chinese historian
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"[An] astonishing and enduring study...[Needham brings] depth of emotion and technical finesse to his task."
Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books
"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University
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Product details
- Date Published: April 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521632621
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 195 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.754kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 3 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Editor's introduction
a. Medicine in Chinese culture
b. Hygiene and preventive medicine
c. Qualifying examinations
d. The origins of immunology
e. Forensic medicine.
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Author
Joseph Needham
Editor
Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania
With
Lu Gwei-Djen