TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yoeli-Tlalim,Ronit
TI  - Reorienting histories of medicine: encounters along the silk roads 
SN  - 9781472512499
AV  - R131 .Y64 2021
U1  - 610 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - London, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Medicine
KW  - History
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - M�edecine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - �Etudes transculturelles
KW  - history of medicine
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
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