Chinese medicine and healing: an illustrated history

Introduction / Linda L. Barnes / TJ Hinrichs

1. The Pre-Han Period / Constance A. Cook

Oracle Bones of the Late Shang Dynasty (ca. Thirteenth-Eleventh Centuries B.C.E.) / Ken Takashima

The Dreams of the Lord of Jin / Constance A. Cook

The Hexagram Gu / Xing Wen

2. The Han Period / Vivienne Lo

The Treatment of Women / Lisa Raphals

A Late Han Adept / TJ Hinrichs

3. The Period of Division and the Tang Period / Fan Ka-wai

Shamans / Lin Fu-shih

Prerequisites for Treating Childlessness / Jessy J. C. Choo

Nurturing the Fetus / Sabine Wilms

Childbirth / Jen-der Lee

Ingestion of the Five Sprouts / Gil Raz

The Celestial Brigand and Illness / Donald Harper

Sun Simiao / Victor Xiong

4. The Song and Jin Periods / TJ Hinrichs

Plague God Cults / Paul R. Katz

Legendary Daoist Women / Catherine Despeux

Song Printed Medical Works and Mediveal Japanese Medicine / Andrew Edmund Goble

5. The Yuan and Ming Periods / Angela Ki Che Leung

Arabic Medicine in China / Paul D. Buell

Tuê Tinh-Vietnamese Monk-Physician at the Ming Court / C. Michele Thompson

A Choson Korea Medical Synthesis: Ho Chun's Precious Mirror of Eastern Medicine / Soyoung Suh

Medical Schools and the Temples of the Three Progenitors / Reiko Shinno

Children's Medicine / Hsiung Ping-chen

Li Shizhen / Kenneth J. Hammond

Variolation / Chang Chia-Feng

6. The Qing Period / Yi-Li Wu

Fertility Control and Demographics / Francesca Bray

Female Alchemy / Elena Valussi

The Nineteenth-Century Bubonic Plague Epidemic / Carol Benedict

The Emperor's Physician / Chang Che-chia

The Jianghu Performance of Medical and Martial Arts in Late Imperial Vernacular Fiction / Paize Keulemans

Eighteenth-Century European Views of Gongfu (Kungfu) / Linda L. Barnes

The "Warm Diseases" Current of Learning / Marta E. Hanson

7. The Republic of China / Bridie J. Andrews

Dissection in China / Larissa Heinrich

Neurasthenia (shenjing shuairuo) in China / Hugh Shapiro

Advertising Hygienic Modernity / Ruth Rogaski

8. The People's Republic of China / Volker Scheid

Propaganda and Health / Stefan R. Landsberger

Folk Nutritional Therapy in Modern China / Eugene N. Anderson

Inventing Qigong / David Ownby

Chinese Medicine as Popular Knowledge in Urban China / Judith Farquhar

Seal Penis, Viagra, and Sexual Potency in Post-Mao China / Everett Zhang

Religious Healing in the People's Republic of China / Thomas DuBois

SARS, Bird Flu, and Media Transparency in China / Hepeng Jia

9. A World of Chinese Medicine and Healing: Part One / Linda L. Barnes

Acupuncture in Argentina / Betina Freidin

Acupuncture in Germany / Gunnar Stollberg

Textuality and Truth in U.S. Chinese Medicine Education / Sonya Pritzker

Acupuncture in Iraq / Lazgeen Ahmad (Interview by Douglas Newton)

Get on Track with Subhealth: Changing Trajectories of "Preventive Medicine" / Mei Zhan

Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trials and Chinese Medicine / Ted J. Kaptchuk

10. A World of Chinese Medicine and Healing: Part Two / Linda L. Barnes

Chinese Medicine in Africa / Elisabeth Hsu

"Trialing" Chinese Medicine in Colonial Australia / Rey Tiquia

TCM and Chinese Immigrants with Tuberculosis in New York City's Chinatown: A Case Study / Ming Ho

Is Vietnamese Medicine Chinese Medicine? / Laurence Monnais

Visualizing Qi / Nancy N. Chen

Taiji in America / Elijah Siegler

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index