Paul U Unschuld
Biographic Data
| ID | 85008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul U Unschuld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul U |
| FAMILY NAME | Unschuld |
| SIGNATURE | UNSCHULD P U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge
Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge
Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III: Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs
Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in th…
Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume IX: Fowls, Domestic and Wild Animals, Human Substances
Volume IX in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive boo…
Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy
The Ling Shu , also known as the Ling Shu Jing , is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Nan Jing . It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this day. Its therapeutic approach is based on a purely secular science of nature, with natural laws serving as guidelines for human behavior and medical treatment. No other text offers such broad i…
Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu
Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1: Chinese Historical Illness Terminology
The Ben cao gang mu , compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceu…
Chinese Traditional Healing (3 vols): The Berlin Collections of Manuscript Volumes from the 16th through the Early 20th Century
Research on past knowledge, practices, personnel and institutions of Chinese health care has focussed on printed text for many decades. The Berlin collections of handwritten Chinese volumes on health and healing from the past 400 years provide a hitherto unprecedented access to a wide range of data. They extend the reach of medical historiography beyond the literature written by and for a small social elite to the reality of health care as practi…
The Berlin Collections of Chinese Medical Manuscripts: Rural Authors, Rural Contents
Yin-Yang Theory, the Human Organism, and the Bai hu tong: A Need for Pairing and Explaining
This paper discusses some terminological consequences of the acceptance of a seemingly all-pervasive yin yang dualism by ancient Chinese naturalists, with a focus on the origin of certain technical terms introduced to designate morphological and functional items in the emerging Chinese medicine. These terms were selected from words not originally linked to morphological and physiological notions. They served as metaphors to illustrate both functi…
The Limits of Individualism and the Advantages of Modular Therapy. Concepts of Illness in Chinese Medicine
Seen from a distance, it is often difficult to distinguish one person from another. Normally, people have a head and a trunk, two arms and two legs, and apart from body height and circumference there is no way to see a person's individuality without being close enough to perceive the diversity of facial features, hair colours, etc. With ailments the situation is similar. At first glance, there is pain, an ulcer, or diarrhoea. It requires a closer…
Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text
Chinese Retributive Recipes: On the Ethics of Public and Secret Health Care Knowledge
药方自古以来就是中医的重要部分。宋金元时期,理论原则已经深入 到药方,以便适合患者各种独特需求。当然,其主要部分还有由个体 证明有效的成方被进一步推广治疗其他有相同特点疾患的病人。关于效验方知识的传播,中医史料中有两种截然不同的态度。许多医 药人员秘效验方而不传,另一些人则认为公开效验方是他们的道义职 责。可能是后一种态度导致了所谓“果报药方”的出现。“果报药 方”的基本信念是传播好的医药知识,则或在现世、或在来生,都会 带来好报。这个信念来源于佛教,而且为大多数旧时中国人所信奉。该文分析了收藏在柏林国家图书馆(Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz)的四个“果报药方”的内容。在翻译其内容的同时, 考查了它们潜藏的理论依据。由此得出的一个结论是:“果报药方” 在中医伦理道德中发挥了重要的作用,因为它能抵消保守有效医疗知 识秘密的倾向
Huang Di Nei Jing Su WenNature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text: Nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text, with an appendix, The doctrine of the five periods…
The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last, the author offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and intellectual past. He traces the history of the Su wen to its origins in the final centuries b.c.e., when numerous authors wrote short medical essays to ex…
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (review)
This book is written in response to a profound question: "How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so?" (p. 8). Where the Europeans attempted to translate anatomical findings into objective diagnostic parameters, the Chinese perceived the mo and offered metaphoric descriptions of their haptic sensations. Where Europeans saw muscles and depicted them in art and language, the Chinese, Shigehisa Kuriyama claims, did …
The Transmission of Chinese Medicine , and: Science and Civilisation in China . Vol. 6, Biology and Biological Technology ; part VI, Medicine (review)
Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 6, Biology and Biological Technology; part VI, Medicine. Edited and introduced by Nathan Sivin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xviii + 261 pp. Ill. $75.00 (0-521-63262-5)
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China (review)
One of the characteristics that future historians might associate with the twentieth century is the notion of eugenics--that is, the belief that science, medicine, and politics should collaborate in improving human heredity. For about a hundred years now, no other set of ideas has promised to rid mankind of as many problems as has eugenics. The emotional panic experienced by many couples threatened with being obliged to live with a disabled child…
The past 1000 years of Chinese medicine
Plausibility or Truth? An Essay on Medicine and World View
The ArgumentThis paper introduces the notion of plausibility as a decisive condition for the acceptance by groups in society of fundamental ideas concerning the nature of illness.Plausibility, it is argued, helps to explain both transition from one system of fundamental ideas to another in history, and coexistence of different such systems in a single civilization. Hence this paper challenges an interpretation of medicine prevalent, especially in…
Der Chinesische “Arzneikönig” Sun Simiao Geschichte—Legende—Ikonographie Zur Plausibilität Naturkundlicher und Übernatürlicher Erklärungsmodelle
L'A. dresse la biographie de Sun Simiao, auteur et medecin, exercant sous la dynastie Tang et originaire de Shaanxi dans le nord ouest de la Chine. Il vecut d'apres la legende de 581 a 682. Apres sa mort, il a connu l'apotheose et entra au sein du parthenon chinois. L'article propose quelques representations de Sun Simiao
Health and the Rise of Civilization. Mark Nathan Cohen
Traditional Chinese medicine: Some historical and epistemological reflections
China's One-Child Policy
The Chinese Hospital: A Socialist Work Unit. Gail E. Henderson and Myron S. Cohen
Traditional Chinese Medical Theory and Real Nosological Units: The Case of Hansen's Disease
Traditional Chinese medicine: Some historical and epistemological reflections
Traditional Chinese Medical Theory and Real Nosological Units: The Case of Hansen's Disease
Plausibility or Truth? An Essay on Medicine and World View
The ArgumentThis paper introduces the notion of plausibility as a decisive condition for the acceptance by groups in society of fundamental ideas concerning the nature of illness.Plausibility, it is argued, helps to explain both transition from one system of fundamental ideas to another in history, and coexistence of different such systems in a single civilization. Hence this paper challenges an interpretation of medicine prevalent, especially in…
Discussion on David McQueen's Paper
Section 4 comparative systems of health care
Comparative systems of health care
The issue of structured coexistence of scientific and alternative medical systems: A comparison of east and west German legislation
Medical Ethics in Imperial China. A Study in Historical Anthropology
Der Wind Als Ursache Des Krankseins
Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture (Book)
Medical Ethics in Imperial China. A Study in Historical Anthropology
The ethics of Chinese physicians were formulated during the Confucian era and advocated the interests of the general public. Medical resources in China were distributed to shamans (up to this century) Buddhist monks Taoist hermits Confucian scholars itinerant and established physicians laymen midwives and many others. Conflict over distribution of those resources affected everyone. Independently practicing physicians acquired more and more contro…
The Chinese Hospital: A Socialist Work Unit. Gail E. Henderson and Myron S. Cohen
Traditional Chinese Medical Theory and Real Nosological Units: The Case of Hansen's Disease
Traditional Chinese medicine: Some historical and epistemological reflections
China's One-Child Policy
Health and the Rise of Civilization. Mark Nathan Cohen
Der Chinesische “Arzneikönig” Sun Simiao Geschichte—Legende—Ikonographie Zur Plausibilität Naturkundlicher und Übernatürlicher Erklärungsmodelle
L'A. dresse la biographie de Sun Simiao, auteur et medecin, exercant sous la dynastie Tang et originaire de Shaanxi dans le nord ouest de la Chine. Il vecut d'apres la legende de 581 a 682. Apres sa mort, il a connu l'apotheose et entra au sein du parthenon chinois. L'article propose quelques representations de Sun Simiao
Plausibility or Truth? An Essay on Medicine and World View
The ArgumentThis paper introduces the notion of plausibility as a decisive condition for the acceptance by groups in society of fundamental ideas concerning the nature of illness.Plausibility, it is argued, helps to explain both transition from one system of fundamental ideas to another in history, and coexistence of different such systems in a single civilization. Hence this paper challenges an interpretation of medicine prevalent, especially in…
The past 1000 years of Chinese medicine
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China (review)
One of the characteristics that future historians might associate with the twentieth century is the notion of eugenics--that is, the belief that science, medicine, and politics should collaborate in improving human heredity. For about a hundred years now, no other set of ideas has promised to rid mankind of as many problems as has eugenics. The emotional panic experienced by many couples threatened with being obliged to live with a disabled child…
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (review)
This book is written in response to a profound question: "How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so?" (p. 8). Where the Europeans attempted to translate anatomical findings into objective diagnostic parameters, the Chinese perceived the mo and offered metaphoric descriptions of their haptic sensations. Where Europeans saw muscles and depicted them in art and language, the Chinese, Shigehisa Kuriyama claims, did …
The Transmission of Chinese Medicine , and: Science and Civilisation in China . Vol. 6, Biology and Biological Technology ; part VI, Medicine (review)
Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 6, Biology and Biological Technology; part VI, Medicine. Edited and introduced by Nathan Sivin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xviii + 261 pp. Ill. $75.00 (0-521-63262-5)
Huang Di Nei Jing Su WenNature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text: Nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text, with an appendix, The doctrine of the five periods…
The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last, the author offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and intellectual past. He traces the history of the Su wen to its origins in the final centuries b.c.e., when numerous authors wrote short medical essays to ex…
Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text
Chinese Retributive Recipes: On the Ethics of Public and Secret Health Care Knowledge
药方自古以来就是中医的重要部分。宋金元时期,理论原则已经深入 到药方,以便适合患者各种独特需求。当然,其主要部分还有由个体 证明有效的成方被进一步推广治疗其他有相同特点疾患的病人。关于效验方知识的传播,中医史料中有两种截然不同的态度。许多医 药人员秘效验方而不传,另一些人则认为公开效验方是他们的道义职 责。可能是后一种态度导致了所谓“果报药方”的出现。“果报药 方”的基本信念是传播好的医药知识,则或在现世、或在来生,都会 带来好报。这个信念来源于佛教,而且为大多数旧时中国人所信奉。该文分析了收藏在柏林国家图书馆(Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz)的四个“果报药方”的内容。在翻译其内容的同时, 考查了它们潜藏的理论依据。由此得出的一个结论是:“果报药方” 在中医伦理道德中发挥了重要的作用,因为它能抵消保守有效医疗知 识秘密的倾向
The Limits of Individualism and the Advantages of Modular Therapy. Concepts of Illness in Chinese Medicine
Seen from a distance, it is often difficult to distinguish one person from another. Normally, people have a head and a trunk, two arms and two legs, and apart from body height and circumference there is no way to see a person's individuality without being close enough to perceive the diversity of facial features, hair colours, etc. With ailments the situation is similar. At first glance, there is pain, an ulcer, or diarrhoea. It requires a closer…
Yin-Yang Theory, the Human Organism, and the Bai hu tong: A Need for Pairing and Explaining
This paper discusses some terminological consequences of the acceptance of a seemingly all-pervasive yin yang dualism by ancient Chinese naturalists, with a focus on the origin of certain technical terms introduced to designate morphological and functional items in the emerging Chinese medicine. These terms were selected from words not originally linked to morphological and physiological notions. They served as metaphors to illustrate both functi…
The Berlin Collections of Chinese Medical Manuscripts: Rural Authors, Rural Contents
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