| Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Medicine Contributor(s): Needham, Joseph (Author), Gwei-Djen, Lu (With), Sivin, Nathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521632625 ISBN-13: 9780521632621 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $163.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction discusses these essays, placing them in their historical and medical context, and surveys recent medical discoveries from China, Japan, Europe and the United States. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - History | Asia - China - Science | History |
| Dewey: 509.51 |
| Series: Science and Civilisation in China |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 7.78" W x 10.05" (1.57 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
