Nathan Sivin

Biographic Data

ID262572
NAMENathan Sivin
GIVEN NAMESNathan
FAMILY NAMESivin
SIGNATURESIVIN N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS43
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Shen Gua's Empiricism by Ya Zuo

    Nathan SivinARTICLEJournal of Sung-Yuan studies2022

    Reviewed by: Shen Gua's Empiricism by Ya Zuo Nathan Sivin Ya Zuo. Shen Gua's Empiricism. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 113. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Pp. xiv+348. $49.95 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0674987111. Shen Gua 沈括 (1031–1095) has often been described as a modern scientist who lived a thousand years too early. The title of this book thus leads readers to anticipate an anachronistic exercise in the phi…

  • Why Study Asian Medicine

    J S Alter, Judith Farquhar et al.ARTICLEAsian Medicine2021

    Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the editorial forum. For our launch of this new format, an international range of scholars working on Asian medicine across different geographical, temporal, and disciplinary contexts were invited to respond to the question “Why study Asian medicine?” The perspectives they have expressed here reflect their diverse interests, motivations, and career trajectories across the spectru…

  • The Question of Efficacy

    Nathan SivinARTICLEAsian Medicine2015

    Historians avoid studying the efficacy of therapy before the age of the double-blind randomised trial. A related topic that has been the cause of great confusion is the meaning of the placebo effect and the efficacy of placebos. Medical anthropology and sociology, although they do not usually study the past, offer extremely useful tools for dealing rationally with both issues. This study uses their methods, among others, to argue that the body’s …

  • Health Care in Eleventh-Century China

    Open AccessNathan SivinBOOKHealth Care in Eleventh-Century…2015

    By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. In ancient China most people were unable to afford a doctor, even in the unlikely case that one lived near their village and was willing to treat peasants. What did they do when their children got sick? The answer is to be found in this book, which goes far beyond the history of medicine. …

  • Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History by ed. T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes (review)

    Nathan SivinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2014

    Reviewed by: Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History by ed. T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes Nathan Sivin T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes, eds. Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. x + 464 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-674-04737-2). This volume covers Chinese medicine in the broadest possible sense from about 1500 BCE to the present-day United States, not to mention Ira…

  • Three Poems on Ageing

    Nathan SivinARTICLEAsian Medicine2012

    of Islam, especially that of Indonesia and the Philippines, former President of Swarthmore College, and former President of the Eisenhower Foundation.2 These two verses use different graphs, ya 牙 and chi 齒, which together make up the most common word for tooth.Some eminent authorities give different meanings for the two-for instance, molar and incisor, or front and back tooth.Here they are evidently synonyms. 3 The word Han uses is ji 紀, a cycle …

  • Old and New Daoisms

    Open AccessNathan SivinARTICLEReligious Studies Review2010

  • Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts

    Nathan SivinREVIEWSocial History of Medicine2006

    Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen (eds), Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts , London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. Pp. 472. £85. ISBN 0415342953. Dunhuang in the seventh to tenth centuries was an outpost in China's far northwest, a town that everyone heading into or out of Central Asia passed through. In the hills outside the town grew up a vast array of Buddhist cave monasteries. One of these caves, built in the 860s, held a …

  • A Soup for the "Qan": Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era as Seen in Hu Szu-Hui's "Yin-Shan Cheng-Yao." (review)

    Nathan SivinARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2001

    Proper and Essential Things for the Emperor's Food and Drink is the Chinese cookbook best known outside China. It is quite atypical of the genre, but fascinating for what it reveals about the mixing of culinary cultures. Hu Szu-hui, a palace dietician, presented it to the Mongol throne in 1330, two generations after Kublai Khan completed his conquest of Cathay. Its recipes--Roast Wolf Soup, Donkey's Head Gruel, endless variations on boiled mutton…

  • The History of Chinese Medicine: Now and Anon

    Nathan SivinARTICLEpositions asia critique1998Cited by: 2

    Other| August 01 1998 The History of Chinese Medicine: Now and Anon Nathan Sivin Nathan Sivin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1998) 6 (3): 731–761. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-731 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nathan Sivin; The History of Chinese Medicine: Now and Anon. positions 1 August 1998; 6 (3): 731–761. doi: https://doi.org/10…

  • Bamboo Stone: The Evolution of a Chinese Medical Elite. Karen Minden

    Nathan SivinARTICLEThe China Journal1996

  • Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China

    Nathan Sivin, Michael LoeweARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1996

    Man and beast: the hybrid in early Chinese art and literature 2. Water, earth and fire: the symbols of the Han dynasty 3. The Han view of comets 4. The authority of the emperors of Ch'in and Han 5. The term K'an-yu and the choice of the moment 6. Imperial sovereignty: Tung Chung-shu's contribution and his predecessors 7. The cult of the dragon and the invocation for rain 8. Divination by shells, bones and stalks during the Han period 9. The oracl…

  • State, Cosmos, and Body in The Last Three Centuries B. C

    Nathan SivinARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1995Cited by: 8

    Analyse des connexions entre le cosmos, le corps et l'etat qui deviennent philosophiquement explicites en Chine au cours des trois derniers siecles avant J.C.. La creations des microcosmes politique et somatique correspond a la decouverte du macrocosme dont l'empereur est l'indispensable mediateur

  • Ruminations on the Tao and Its Disputers

    Nathan SivinARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1992

  • Science, Religion, and Boundary Maintenance

    Nathan Sivin, Jon Clark et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

  • Raising Questions Medicine in China . Paul U. Unschuld

    Nathan SivinARTICLEIsis1990Cited by: 1

  • Science and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Research and Education. Science, Medicine, and Technology in East Asia 3

    J Esposito, Joseph L Esposito et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1990

  • On the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Introductory Note

    Open AccessNathan SivinARTICLEScience in Context1989

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  • Fifth International Conference on the History of Science in China

    Nathan SivinARTICLEIsis1989

  • The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Liu Yanchi , Fang Tingyu , Chen Laidi

    Nathan SivinARTICLEIsis1988

  • Science and Medicine in Imperial China-The State of the Field

    Open AccessNathan SivinARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1988Cited by: 4References: 50

    Sinology and the history of science have changed practically beyond recognition in the past half-century. Both have become academic specialisms, with their own departments, journals, and professional societies. Both have moved off in new directions, drawing on the tools and insights of several disciplines. Although some sinologists still honor no ambition beyond explicating primary texts, on many of the field's frontiers philology is no more than…

  • Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China: A Partial Translation of Revised Outline of Chinese Medicine (1972) with an Introductory Study on Change in Present-Day and Early Medicine

    Nathan SivinBOOKTraditional medicine in…1987

  • A Historical Catalogue of Scientists and Scientific Books: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Nineteenth Century. Robert Mortimer Gascoigne

    Nathan SivinARTICLEIsis1986

  • The Cambridge Meeting, November 1-4, 1984

    Arnold Thackray, John E O’connor et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1985

    Organizational Notes THE CAMBRIDGE MEETING, NOVEMBER 1-4, 1984 More than 250 people attended the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,. Cambridge, November 1-4, 1984. Jeffrey Sturchio (Center for History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania) chaired the Program Committee, which included Susan Douglas (Hampshire College) and Stuart W. Leslie ( Johns Hopkins Univ…

  • Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa . Lu Gwei-Djen, Joseph Needham

    Nathan SivinARTICLEIsis1982