University of California Press
Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy
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- Paul U Unschuld
- University of California Press
- Hardcover
- 9780520292253
- 9 X 6.2 X 2.2 inches
- 2.65 pounds
- Medical > Acupuncture
- English
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Book Description
The Ling Shu, also known as the Ling Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Nan Jing. It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this day. Its therapeutic approach is based on a purely secular science of nature, with natural laws serving as guidelines for human behavior and medical treatment. No other text offers such broad insights into the thinking and manifest action of the authors of the time. Following an introduction, this volume contains the full original Chinese text of the Ling Shu, an English translation of all eighty-one chapters, and notes on difficult-to-grasp passages and possible changes in the text over time on the basis of Chinese primary and secondary literature of the past two thousand years and translator Paul Unschuld's own work. The Ling Shu reveals itself as a completely rational work, and, in many of its statements, a surprisingly modern one. It will provide the foundation for comparisons with the nearly contemporaneous Corpus Hippocraticum of ancient Europe and today's iterations of traditional Chinese Medicine as well.
Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy
Author Bio
Paul U. Unschuld is the director of the Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin. His books include What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing (2009) and The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History (2013).
- Research Interests
- Comparative History of Chinese and European Medical History.
Comparative History of Chinese and Western Medical Ethics/Bioethics.
Public Health Issues associated with Heterogenous Health Care Systems in Contemporary Western and NonWestern Societies.
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