Beschreibung:
Elisabeth Hsu is Reader in Social Anthropology and Fellow of Green College, and convenor of the M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Previous publications include The Transmission of Chinese Medicine (Cambridge, 1999) and Innovation in Chinese Medicine (Cambridge, 2001).
A study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, focusing on a biography of Chunyu Yi.
Part I. Framing the Field: Introduction; The questions; Diagnosis and medicine in the warring states and early Han; Conceptions of the body in the warring states and early Han; Discussion; Part II. Shi Ji 105.2 - The Memoir of Chunyu Yi: Outline of the memoir; Text structure semantics; Part III. Translation and Interpretation of Cases 1-10 in the Memoir of Chunyu Yi: Case 1; Case 2; Case 3; Case 4; Case 5; Case 6; Case 7; Case 8; Case 9; Case 10; Discussion; Part IV. Appendices.