Author: Kuriyama Shigehisa 栗山茂久, 1954-

expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine
Date1999
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherZone Books
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfDirector's Office
Call NumberR723.K87 1999
Description340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
NoteThe expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-329) and index.

Styles of touching--Grasping the language of life--Expressiveness of words--Styles of Seeing--Muscularity and identity--Expressiveness of colors--Styles of being--Blood and life--Wind and self.
Keywords: Comparative Anatomy; medical texts, internal organs, the body in art.

SubjectMedicine, Chinese--Philosophy Medicine, Greek and Roman--Philosophy Human body--Social aspects Human anatomy--China Human anatomy--Greece Medicine--Philosophy
ISBN0942299884 ; 9780942299885
LCCN98-37210