Early Chinese Medical Literature
The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15026871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | TJ Hinrichs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-123 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2001.0021 |
| OpenAlex | W1989655509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Scholarship on the Mawangdui manuscripts is revolutionizing our understanding of early Chinese medical history, and we are fortunate to have a scholar of Donald Harper's caliber to bring the revolution to us. Early Chinese Medical Literature is an excellent introduction to the medicine of China in the fourth to second centuries b.c.e. Harper presents a rigorous, carefully considered historical [End Page 121] analysis and translation of the medical manuscripts buried with their owner in 168 b.c.e. and unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan, in 1973. Although studies of these texts exist in Chinese and Japanese, and Harper has written a Ph.D. dissertation and articles on portions of them, this book is the first of its kind in a Western language, making all the texts and this scholarship available to a wider Western audience
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| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |