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  • The New Invitation to Anthropology

    de Eric I. Karchmer, Dana E. Powell, Luke Eric Lassiter ...
    Born within and against the violence of European colonial conquest, anthropology has aspired to understand the diversity of human experience in ethical and transformative ways. The New Invitation to Anthropology is a fresh and accessible text that takes students to the heart of the discipline and reveals the ongoing relevance of anthropology today.The New Invitation to Anthropology, Fifth Edition ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Prescriptions for Virtuosity

    The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine

    de Eric I. Karchmer ...
    Although Chinese medicine is assumed to be a timeless healing tradition, the encounter with modern biomedicine threatened its very existence and led to many radical changes. Prescriptions for Virtuosity tells the story of how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to the global dominance of biomedicine and developed new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    de Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

    Plurality and Synthesis

    de Volker Scheid, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine

    Heritage and Adaptation

    Traducido por Bridie Andrews ...
    de Paul U. Unschuld ...
    A leading authority explains the ideas and practice of Chinese medicine from its beginnings in antiquity to today. Paul U. Unschuld describes medicine's close connection with culture and politics throughout Chinese history. He brings together texts, techniques, and worldviews to understand changing Chinese attitudes toward healing and the significance of traditional Chinese medicine in both China ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Theory Of Chinese Medicine, The: A Modern Interpretation

    de Hai Hong ...
    This path-breaking book reinterprets Chinese medicine using the approach of the philosophy of science in a manner that strikes common ground with biomedical science. It strips Chinese medical theory of the mystique and metaphysical pretentions that too often plague the discipline, presenting this theory as being derived from empirical observations and clinical findings. Concepts like qi and phlegm ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Chinese Medicine

    Song Dynasty, 960–1200

    de Asaf Goldschmidt ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    The history of Chinese medicine hinges on three major turning points: the formation of canonical theory in the Han dynasty; the transformation of medicine via the integration of earlier medical theories and practices in the Song dynasty; and the impact of Western medicine from the nineteenth century onwards. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the crucial second stage in the evolution of ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

    Roots of Modern Practice

    de Charles Buck ...
    Charles Buck draws on three decades of study, practice and teaching in this book to provide a relevant and engaging account of the origins of acupuncture and Chinese medicine. From its pre-Han dynasty roots to Chinese medicine as we know it today, Buck covers the key texts, the main scholars and the concepts they have contributed, emphasising those that are more relevant to clinicians wishing to ... Leer más

    $61.49 USD

  • Tongzhi Living

    Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China

    de Tiantian Zheng ...
    Tongzhi, which translates into English as “same purpose” or “same will,” was once widely used to mean “comrade.” Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity.Tongzhi Living, the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in the metropolitan ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China

    de Xiaoping Fang ...
    In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of health-care delivery for the rural masses. Soon every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide basic medical care, creating a national network of health-care services for the very first time. The barefoot doctors were portrayed nationally and internationally as revolutionary ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

    Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

    de Marta Hanson ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times Marta Hanson approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. She explores the possibility of replacing older narratives that stress progress and linear development with accounts that pay ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Other-Worldly

    Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames

    de Mei Zhan ...
    Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalized in recent decades. In Other-Worldly, Mei Zhan argues that the discourses and practices called “traditional Chinese medicine” are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Zhan spent a decade following practitioners, teachers, and advocates of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD