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Reorienting histories of medicine : encounters along the silk roads /

Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit,

Reorienting histories of medicine : encounters along the silk roads / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim. - 1 online resource (130 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transliterations and abbreviations -- Introduction: Medical encounters along the Silk Roads -- 1 Narrating Eurasian origins of medical knowledge -- 2 Of dice and medicine: Interactions in Central Asian'contact zones' -- 3 Myrobalans: The making of a Eurasian panacea -- 4 Tibetan moxa-cautery from Dunhuang: Practices and images on the move -- 5 Medicine of the Bakhshis: Cross-pollinations in Buddhist Iran -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- lndex

"ReOrienting Histories of Medicine takes a cross-cultural approach that provides a re-appraisal of the 'globalized' character of early medicine. It re-orients medical history, and emphasizes the role of the transmission of medical ideas and practices between European and Asian cultures. Using original research taken from the medical findings of Dunhuang, Turpan and Cairo Genizah, this book contextualizes the history of Euro-Asian medical encounters, from Greco-Indic early contacts to the present adoptions of mindfulness in psychotherapy"--

9781472512499 1472512499 9781474293495 1474293492 9781472507181 1472507185

2020035942


Medicine--History.
Medicine--Cross-cultural studies.
History of Medicine
M�edecine--Histoire.
M�edecine--�Etudes transculturelles.
history of medicine.
Medicine


Cross-cultural studies
History

R131 / .Y64 2021

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WZ 40 / .Y54r 2021