Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series – serie
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Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era As Seen in Hu Sihui's Yinshan Zhengyao
Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Chinese Text. Second Revised and Expanded Edition
Av Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson
Inbunden, 2010
2524 kr
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In the early 14th century, a court nutritionist called Hu Sihui wrote his Yinshan Zhengyao, a dietary and nutritional manual for the Chinese Mongol Empire. Hu Sihui, a man apparently with a Turkic linguistic background, included recipes, descriptions of food items, and dietary medical lore …
Mamluks and Animals
Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam
Inbunden, 2012
4257 kr
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Housni Alkhateeb Shehada's Mamluks and Animals: Veterinary Medicine in Medieval Islam is the first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and its patients in the medieval Islamic world, with special emphasis on the Mamluk period (1250-1517). Based on a large variety of …
Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology
From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses
Inbunden, 2015
2301 kr
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Based on several research seminars, the authors in this volume provide fresh perspectives of the intellectual and cultural history of East Asian medicine, 1550-1800. They use new sources, make new connections, and re-examine old assumptions, thereby interrogating whether and why European medical …
Transforming the Void
Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions
Inbunden, 2015
3287 kr
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Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions considers paths to self-cultivation and salvation that are patterned on human embryological development or procreative imagery in the religions of China and Japan.Focusing on Taoism, Esoteric Buddhism, …
Naturopathy in South India
Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment
Av Eva Jansen
Inbunden, 2016
1972 kr
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In Naturopathy in South India – Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment, Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its complex history, multiple interpretations, and antagonisms. This book presents two major forms of …
Jewel of Annual Astrology
A Parallel Sanskrit-English Critical Edition of Balabhadra’s Hāyanaratna
Av Martin Gansten, Balabhadra Daivajña
Inbunden, 2020
1405 kr
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The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting and interpretation of anniversary horoscopes. Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra Daivajña, court astrologer to Shāh Shujāʿ – governor of Bengal and …
Body and Cosmos
Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk
Av Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2485 kr
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Body and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysks long and esteemed career within …
Science and Society in the Sanskrit World
Av Christopher T. Fleming, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2311 kr
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Science and Society in the Sanskrit World contains seventeen essays that cover a kaleidoscopic array of classical Sanskrit scientific disciplines, such as the astral sciences, grammar, jurisprudence, theology, and hermeneutics. The volume foregrounds a unifying theme to Christopher Z. Minkowski’s …
South Asian Animal Divination
A Critical Anthology
Inbunden, 2025
1901 kr
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This scholarly work examines the history and practice of animal omen divination in South Asia, comparing it to similar traditions in Mesopotamia and classical antiquity. It provides critical editions and translations of relevant texts, including chapters from the Gārgīyajyotiṣa, Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna, …
Chinese Traditional Healing - Continued
A Survey of Manuscripts 8840 to 8960 of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Av Paul Ulrich Unschuld, Jinsheng Zheng
Inbunden, 2025
1795 kr
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Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of …
Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah
Av Efraim Lev, Amar
Inbunden, 2007
4513 kr
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This volume uniquely looks into the practice of medical care in the medieval world, particularly amongst the Jewish communities of Egypt. It examines the medicinal prescriptions, lists of materia medica and letters between physicians, pharmacists and patients found in the Cairo Genizah. Most …
