PDF The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine

PDF The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine

isbn	:	0942299884
Title	:	The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Author	:	Shigehisa Kuriyama

 

A meditation on the human body as described by the classical Greeks and by the ancient Chinese.At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma. The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. The Expressiveness of the Body meditates on the contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians click here to download