Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521632621
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Medicine by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Medicine written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.