Medicine in China
Subtitle: A History of Ideas (Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 14, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780520062160
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Science; Health/Fitness; General; History / Asia
First sentence: The Shang Empire, the first Chinese dynasty to leave traces of therapeutic activities, arose approximately during the eighteenth through sixteenth century B.C. along the middle course of the Huang-ho (Yellow River), in the northeast section of modern-day Honan Province.