Osiris, Volume 37

Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds

AvTara Alberts,Sietske Fransen

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period.This volume of Osiris turns the analytical lens of translation onto medical knowledge and practices across the premodern world. Understandings of the human body, and of diseases and their cures, were influenced by a range of religious, cultural, environmental, and intellectual factors. As a result, complex systems of translation emerged as people crossed linguistic and territorial boundaries to share not only theories and concepts, but also materials, such as drugs, amulets, and surgical tools. The studies here reveal how instances of translation helped to shape and, in some cases, reimagine these ideas and objects to fit within local frameworks of medical belief.Translating Medicine across Premodern Worlds features case studies located in geographically and temporally diverse contexts, including ninth-century Baghdad, sixteenth-century Seville, seventeenth-century Cartagena, and nineteenth-century Bengal. Throughout, the contributors explore common themes and divergent experiences associated with a variety of historical endeavors to “translate” knowledge about health and the body across languages, practices, and media. By deconstructing traditional narratives and de-emphasizing well-worn dichotomies, this volume ultimately offers a fresh and innovative approach to histories of knowledge.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-20
Mått:171 x 254 x 23 mm
Vikt:538 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Osiris
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226821566

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Medicinsk utrustning och medicinska tekniker inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Tara Alberts is a senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of York and the author of Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500–1700. Sietske Fransen is a research group leader at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History and coeditor of Translating Early Modern Science. Elaine Leong is a lecturer in history at University College London and the author of Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Innehållsförteckning

Translating Medicine, ca. 800–1900: Articulations and DisarticulationsTara Alberts, Sietske Fransen, and Elaine LeongTranslation and the Making of a Medical Archive: The Case of the Islamic Translation MovementAhmed RagabUnveiling Nature: Liu Zhi’s Translation of Arabo-Persian Physiology in Early Modern ChinaDror WeilNew World Drugs and the Archive of Practice: Translating Nicolás Monardes in Early Modern EuropeAlisha RankinWhen the Tallamys Met John French: Translating, Printing, and Reading The Art of DistillationElaine LeongVernacular Languages and Invisible Labor in ṬibbShireen HamzaWhere There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Pyric Technologies and African Pipes in the Early Modern WorldBenjamin BreenTranslating the Inner Landscape: Anatomical Bricolage in Early Modern JapanDaniel TrambaioloCasting Blood Circulations: Translatability and Braiding Sciences in Colonial BengalProjit Bihari MukharjiFemale Authority in Translation: Medieval Catalan Texts on Women’s HealthMontserrat Cabré[Un]Muffled Histories: Translating Bodily Practices in the Early Modern CaribbeanPablo F. GómezTranslating Surgery and Alchemy between Seventeenth-Century Europe and SiamTara Alberts“Use Me as Your Test!”: Patients, Practitioners, and the Commensurability of VirtueHansun HsiungNotes on ContributorsIndex