Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Medicine - Couverture rigide

Needham, Joseph

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521632625 ISBN 13 : 9780521632621

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial review of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces the history of medicine. Following the deaths of Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen, a considerable amount of written material on the development of Chinese medicine awaited publication. This material has been gathered together by the editor, Nathan Sivin, in the five essays contained in this volume. They offer a broad and readable account of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology, and the examinations taken by some Chinese physicians for more than a thousand years. Professor Sivin has edited the essays, expanding them where appropriate and incorporating the results of recent research. His extensive introduction discusses the contributions of Needham and Lu, placing the essays in context, and surveys recent scholarship from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"[An] astonishing and enduring study...[Needham brings] depth of emotion and technical finesse to his task."
Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books

"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521632625
• ISBN 13: 9780521632621
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Sivin Nathan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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