Subject: Medical anthropology

Needles, herbs, gods, and ghosts : China, healing, and the West to 1848
AuthorBarnes, Linda L.
PlaceCambridge, MA
PublisherHarvard University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition1st pbk. ed.
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberR601.B37 2007
Descriptionxiii, 458 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
NoteNeedles, herbs, gods, and ghosts : China, healing, and the West to 1848 / Linda L. Barnes.
Originally published: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 374-436) and index.
First impressions: until 1491 -- A new wave of Europeans: 1492-1659 -- Model state, medical men, and "mechanick principles": 1660-1736 -- Sinophiles, sinophobes, and the cult of Chinoiserie: 1737-1804 -- Memory, history, and imagination: 1805-1848.
ISBN9780674023970