TY - BOOK ID - 9327540 TI - Chinese traditional healing AU - Unschuld, Paul U AU - Zheng, Jinsheng PY - 2012 SN - 9789004225251 9789004229051 9789004229068 9789004229075 9004225250 9786613591142 9004229094 128049591X 9789004229099 6613591149 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - S21/0300 KW - S21/0100 KW - China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general KW - China: Medicine, public health and food--Bibliographies, dictionaries, yearbooks and collections KW - Chinese healing. KW - Spiritual healing. KW - Traditional healing. KW - Medicine, Chinese KW - Materia medica KW - Medicine, Ancient KW - Manuscripts, Chinese KW - Manuscripts as Topic KW - Medicine, East Asian Traditional KW - Archives KW - Information Centers KW - History KW - Medicine, Traditional KW - Publications KW - Information Science KW - Humanities KW - Complementary Therapies KW - Communications Media KW - Culture KW - Anthropology, Cultural KW - Therapeutics KW - Anthropology KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Museums KW - Medicine, Chinese Traditional KW - Manuscripts, Medical KW - Libraries KW - Medicine KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Christianity KW - Medicine - General KW - Manuscripts KW - Chinese manuscripts KW - Ancient medicine KW - Manuscripts, Chinese. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9327540 AB - 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 data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practiced by private households, lay healers, pharmacists, professional doctors, magicians, itinerant healers and others. The nearly 900 volumes surveyed here for the first time demonstrate the heterogeneity of Chinese traditional healing. They evidence the continuation of millennia-old therapeutic approaches long discarded by the elite, and they show continuous adaptation to more recent trends. ER -