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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn797577542
035 $a(OCoLC)797577542
035 $a(NNC)9609892
040 $aHLS$cHLS$dOCLCO
050 4 $aR127.1$b.U57 2012
100 1 $aUnschuld, Paul U.$q(Paul Ulrich),$d1943-
245 10 $aChinese traditional healing :$bthe Berlin Collections of Manuscript Volumes from the 16th through the early 20th century /$cby Paul U. Unschuld and Zheng Jinsheng.
260 $aLeiden :$bBoston,$c2012.
300 $a3 v. (xii, 2828 p.) :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aSir Henry Wellcome Asian series ;$vv. 10/1-3
500 $aIncludes index of Chinese recipe names.
505 0 $aV.1. List of figures; Preface; Introductory essay; 1. Chinese medical manuscripts; 1.1. Handwriting in the age of printing; 1.2. Manuscript copies of printed books; 1.3. Original manuscripts; 1.4. Chinese preferences; 1.5. Unorthodox knowledge and practices; 2. General characteristics of the Chinese medical manuscripts in the Berlin collections; 2.1. Paper and binding; 2.2. Classification of contents; 3. Recipe collections; 3.1. Various rationales of recipes; 3.2. Simple and complex recipes in comparison.
505 8 $a3.3. The modular construction, zhi, and patterns, fa, of complex recipes; 3.4. Preconditions of trust in folk remedies; 3.5. Spreading private knowledge; 3.6. The circumstances of folk healing reflected in the medical recipe manuscripts; 4. Major groups of authors; 4.1. Medical recipe manuscripts of physicians; 4.2. Pharmacists and their medication lists; 4.3. Itinerant physicians and their manuscripts; 5. Further groups of authors and their manuscripts; 5.1. General remarks; 5.2. Clinical subspecialties of regular Chinese traditional medicine.
505 8 $a5.3. The popular writing of drugs names and numbers in recipe manuscripts5.4. Demonology, magic, and religion in folk manuscripts; 5.5. Folk entertainment to popularize medical-pharmaceutical knowledge; 6. Non-medical contents in the manuscripts; 6.1. On sacrifices; 6.2. On interdictions/taboos; 6.3. Correspondence, petitions, contracts; 6.4. Poems, antithetical couplets, aphorisms, riddles; 6.5. Accounting; 6.6. Miscellaneous; 7. Finding the sources and dates of Chinese medical manuscripts; 7.1. Determination of sources; 7.2. Determination of dates; 7.3. The significance of the contents.
505 8 $a8. Conclusion; Sample pages of manuscripts; English index; Chinese pinyin index; 1. Titles of books, chapters, sections, and poems; 2. Names of persons, firms and organizations; 3. Names of recipes/prescriptions/formulas/spells; 4. Names of pharmaceutical substances; 5. Technical terminology; 6. Place names; 7. Designations of health problems; 8. Acupuncture/moxibustion terminology; 9. Phrases/quotes/varia; Index of Chinese recipe names --
505 0 $aV.2. Survey of mss. 8001-8449; Survey of mss. 8450-48963 -- v. 3. Survey of mss. 8450-48963.
520 $aThe Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from past centuries provide an unprecedented access to the reality of health care as understood and practiced by professional doctors, lay healers, private households, pharmacists, magicians and itinerant healers.
650 0 $aMedicine, Chinese$xManuscripts.
650 0 $aSpiritual healing$xManuscripts.
650 0 $aTraditional medicine$xManuscripts.
650 0 $aManuscripts, Chinese.
700 1 $aZheng, Jinsheng.
830 0 $aSir Henry Wellcome Asian series ;$vv. 10.
852 01 $beal$hR127.1$i.U57 2012g
866 41 $80$av.1-3