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| Author(s): | L. L. Barnes |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| ISBN: | 0674018729 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 458pp | |
| Price: | £31.95 |
| Review Date: | 17 January 2006 |
| Review: | This scholarly text begins with an exploration of thirteenth-century Chinese understanding of illness and healing and continues through to the mid-nineteenth century, examining Western understanding of Chinese medical practices, firstly in Europe and later in the USA. The writer includes many examples of Westerners studying and adapting Chinese medical skills such as acupuncture. The book is illustrated with 30 black-and-white plates and includes an extensive bibliography. Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts is a very readable book and will be of interest to professionals in medicine, anthropology, history and sinology, among other disciplines, as well as being informative for the interested general reader. |