Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341526
Changhua Liu, M. Gu, Yang Liu, Qi Zhou, Q. Luo, Shelley Ochs
Since 2014 our team of scholars at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS) has been transcribing and analyzing the 951 bamboo slips excavated from the Laoguanshan tomb site at Tianhui. The team includes Liu Changhua 柳长华, Gu Man 顾漫, Zhou Qi 周琦, Luo Qiong 罗琼, and Liu Yang 刘阳. The lead author of this article, who is the former director of the Institute of Chinese Medical History and Medical Literature at CACMS, is the principal investigator. What follows is a report of our work on the six different manuscripts we identified among the tomb M3–121 bamboo slips and a preliminary analysis of their content and its formation. The texts from Tianhui were copied in the early second century BCE. They thus give us invaluable insight into how medical literature was compiled and edited during the course of the Han dynasty in the century before Liu Xiang (77–6 BCE) and Li Zhuguo (fl. ca. 26 BCE) compiled their bibliographic treatise on books on medicine and diagnosis in the Han imperial library.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341531
Vivienne Lo
The classics of Chinese medicine are redolent with allusions to weaving as they describe a new imperial anatomy and physiology of the medical body. The superior physician in the Yellow Emperor’s corpus manipulated ji 機, the trigger mechanisms at strategic points on the surface of the body, which provided remote relief from the symptoms of illness. Through stimulating these points, medical practice with needle and moxibustion could control the many spirits that inhabited the body, weaving them into a numinous fabric. This paper explores the spatiotemporal geographies of meaning expressed in the manuscripts and artifacts excavated at the Laoguanshan tomb sites. In particular, an analysis of the medical texts, models of mechanical pattern shaft looms, and a tiny lacquered medical figurine recovered there suggest that local translational knowledge transfer between medicine, weaving, and water technologies occurred in the upper reaches of the Yangzi Valley. The resulting innovations were at the heart of a new imperial Chinese medicine.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341516
Ruby Bhardwaj
The introduction of naturopathy in India can be traced back to the colonial period when it was fielded in resistance to the growing prominence of biomedicine. Reporting the findings of an empirical study conducted in two naturopathy centers in Delhi, this article explores its contradictions, contestations, and co-optations with biomedicine. It argues that biomedicine conditions the proliferation of yoga and naturopathy through its shortcomings and excesses. Patient accounts reveal that the pursuit of yoga and naturopathic treatment is propelled by their dissatisfaction with biomedicine and perception of risk involved in the ingestion of drugs. Furthermore, the study explores how patients and practitioners negotiate through pluralistic settings, imposed by the adoption of biomedical diagnostics and nosology that contradict naturopathy’s episteme. The practice of naturopathy and yoga demonstrates therapeutic regimes severed from their ontological bearings, reducing them merely to adjunct therapies adapted to a biomedical episteme.
{"title":"Contestations, Contradictions, and Co-optations of Naturopathy and Biomedicine","authors":"Ruby Bhardwaj","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341516","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The introduction of naturopathy in India can be traced back to the colonial period when it was fielded in resistance to the growing prominence of biomedicine. Reporting the findings of an empirical study conducted in two naturopathy centers in Delhi, this article explores its contradictions, contestations, and co-optations with biomedicine. It argues that biomedicine conditions the proliferation of yoga and naturopathy through its shortcomings and excesses. Patient accounts reveal that the pursuit of yoga and naturopathic treatment is propelled by their dissatisfaction with biomedicine and perception of risk involved in the ingestion of drugs. Furthermore, the study explores how patients and practitioners negotiate through pluralistic settings, imposed by the adoption of biomedical diagnostics and nosology that contradict naturopathy’s episteme. The practice of naturopathy and yoga demonstrates therapeutic regimes severed from their ontological bearings, reducing them merely to adjunct therapies adapted to a biomedical episteme.","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79954883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341521
Frederick M. Smith
{"title":"An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions, written by James McHugh","authors":"Frederick M. Smith","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"297 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79207768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341523
Yi-Li Wu
{"title":"Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China, written by Hsiao-wen Cheng","authors":"Yi-Li Wu","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"436 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83343548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341518
Calum Blaikie
{"title":"Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia, written by Tatiana Chudakova","authors":"Calum Blaikie","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341518","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"863 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76952341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341515
Siran Liang, Daniel Münster
Tibet’s wild fungus cordyceps (Ophiocordyceps sinensis), a prized commodity in metropolitan China, has been undergoing changes in the way it is traded and marketed in Tibet. Prized as a medicinal tonic and high-value gift, the parasitic fungus has traditionally been traded in its dried form. However, in recent years we have observed the emergence of trade in fresh cordyceps. This paper seeks to make sense of this change in the form of this commodity and its correlation to changing meanings of cordyceps in China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tibet and textual analysis of online markets in China, this paper argues that this transformation is associated with China’s anticorruption campaigns, the rising importance of e-commerce infrastructures, and the biomedicalization of cordyceps through advancing biotechnologies. In addition, we argue that professional brokers play a key role in the emergence of the fresh cordyceps trade.
{"title":"Between Medicine and Gift","authors":"Siran Liang, Daniel Münster","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341515","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Tibet’s wild fungus cordyceps (Ophiocordyceps sinensis), a prized commodity in metropolitan China, has been undergoing changes in the way it is traded and marketed in Tibet. Prized as a medicinal tonic and high-value gift, the parasitic fungus has traditionally been traded in its dried form. However, in recent years we have observed the emergence of trade in fresh cordyceps. This paper seeks to make sense of this change in the form of this commodity and its correlation to changing meanings of cordyceps in China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Tibet and textual analysis of online markets in China, this paper argues that this transformation is associated with China’s anticorruption campaigns, the rising importance of e-commerce infrastructures, and the biomedicalization of cordyceps through advancing biotechnologies. In addition, we argue that professional brokers play a key role in the emergence of the fresh cordyceps trade.","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75223362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341522
J. Flowers
{"title":"A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao, written by Emily Ng","authors":"J. Flowers","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85166245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341517
Joshua Schlachet
This article explores a reactionary, and ultimately failed, medical dietary movement that sought to counter the influence of Western nutritional sciences at the turn of the twentieth century. Its supporters looked to the early modern past to create a vision of traditional Japanese foodways based on whole grains, unpolished rice, and locally grown vegetables, a nutritional regimen they called cerealism. In articulating a Japanese national diet, cerealism offered a new promise to not only recapture Japan’s food culture but its national subjectivity by envisioning native eating habits that could build both superior physique and quality of character. The intrusion of the Western staples of bread and meat, supporters feared, could cause the downfall of the Japanese nation on bodily, spiritual, and economic grounds. Cerealism thus sought to upend the universal claims of Western medical science by posing a simple question: Was there such a thing as Japanese nutrition?
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Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341519
Barbara Gerke
{"title":"A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine, written by C. Pierce Salguero","authors":"Barbara Gerke","doi":"10.1163/15734218-12341519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34972,"journal":{"name":"Asian Medicine","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72639389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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