Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine
Subtitle: the telling touch
By: Elisabeth Hsu ; with an annotated translation of The Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong Zhuan) in the 105th chapter of the records of the historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Qian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories
Contributors: Sima, Qian, ca. 145-ca. 86 B.C.
Series: University of Cambridge Oriental publications -- no. 68; University of Cambridge oriental publications -- 68.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780521516624
Subjects: Chinese Medicine; History and criticism; Early works to 1800; Pulse; Chinese Traditional Medicine; Diagnosis; Physical diagnosis; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Framing the field. -- Introduction ;; title: The questions ;; title: Diagnosis and medicine in the Warring States and the early Han ;; title: conceptions of the body in the Warring States and the early Han ;; title: Discussion -- The memoir of Chunyu Yi in Shi ji 105.; title: Outline of the memoir (Canggong zhuan) ;; title: Translation of the memoir of Chunyu Yi ;; title: Commentators and commentaries to the memoir ;; title: Map of Chunyu Yi's itineraries -- Translation and interpretation of the medical case histories 1-10 in the memoir of Chunyu Yi.; title: Text structure semantics ; -- Case 1 :; title: coagulated blood in the liver ; -- Case 2 :; title: qi trapped in the chest ; -- Case 3 :; title: cold waters congealing into a mass ; -- Case 4 :; title: hot waters dispersing as sweat pearls ; -- Case 5 :; title: the queen dowager's overexposure to yang ; -- Case 6 :; title: a body form in dissolution, delirium and death ; -- Case 7 :; title: a lethal constipation ; -- Case 8 :; title: a deadly diarrhoea ; -- Case 9 :; title: the king of Jibei's overabsorption of yin ; -- Case 10 : -- two cases in one :; title: qi went into the abdomen ;-- Discussion of the medical case histories 1-10.