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The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology
Seiten
1999
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-08058-4 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-08058-4 (ISBN)
This is a translation into English of the complete "Yin-Hai Jing-Wei", a classic 15th-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. This work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in pre-modern China.
Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei, a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in premodern China. Superbly rendered from the classical Chinese and extensively annotated by Paul U. Unschuld and Jurgen Kovacs, the text provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysis of the development of this specialty within Chinese medicine. As a source for comparative studies of Chinese and Western medicine and numerous other issues in the history of medicine and Chinese thought, the Yin-Hai Jing-Wei has no equal in the Western world.
Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei, a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in premodern China. Superbly rendered from the classical Chinese and extensively annotated by Paul U. Unschuld and Jurgen Kovacs, the text provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysis of the development of this specialty within Chinese medicine. As a source for comparative studies of Chinese and Western medicine and numerous other issues in the history of medicine and Chinese thought, the Yin-Hai Jing-Wei has no equal in the Western world.
Paul U. Unschuld is Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Munich University, and author of Nan-ching: The Classic of Difficult Issues (California, 1986), Medicine in China: A History of Pharmaceutics (California, 1985) and
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.1999 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care ; 38 |
| Übersetzer | Jürgen Kovacs, Paul U. Unschuld |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 816 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Augenheilkunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-08058-0 / 0520080580 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-08058-4 / 9780520080584 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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