Nathan Sivin, Professor of Chinese Culture and of the History of Science, Emeritus, at University of Pennsylvania - “The Difference between Health Care and Medicine: China in the Northern Song”

Sep
19
2012

Nathan Sivin, Professor of Chinese Culture and of the History of Science, Emeritus, at University of Pennsylvania - “The Difference between Health Care and Medicine: China in the Northern Song”

4:30pm - 6:00pm | Stiteler B26

Almost everything we know about Chinese medicine before modern times is about classical physicians and their work. But most people before modern times--rural, illiterate, and poor--had no access to elite practitioners. The majority depended instead on healers who employed mostly local drugs, or on ritualists of the popular religion, Buddhism, or Daoism. This talk will discuss for the first time the whole spectrum of health care, and explore the interactions of ritual and other kinds of medicine. It will also remark on the importance of this knowledge in studying literature, history, and other fields.
* CEAS Humanities Colloquium Series

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Nathan Sivin, Professor of Chinese Culture and of the History of Science, Emeritus, at University of Pennsylvania - “The Difference between Health Care and Medicine: China in the Northern Song”

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