ReOrienting Histories of Medicine

Encounters along the Silk Roads

AvRonit Yoeli-Tlalim

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world – Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz – the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent.This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-28
Mått:154 x 232 x 16 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350195820

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Medicin: allmänt inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is Reader in History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of Rashid al-Din: Agent and mediator of cultural exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (2013), Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (2010) and Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (2008).

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Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and significant historians of Asian medicine active today. ... while ReOrienting is both informative and theoretically sophisticated, it is also quite readable.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsTransliterations and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Medical Encounters along the Silk Roads1. Narrating Eurasian Origins of Medical Knowledge2. Of Dice and Medicine: Interactions in Central Asian ‘Contact Zones’3. Myrobalans: The Making of a Eurasian Panacea4. Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang: Practices and Images on the Move5. Medicine of the Bakhshis: Cross-Pollinations in Buddhist IranAfterwordBibliographyIndex