The First Documented Experience of Qi and an Account of Healing Failure
4Th-Century BCE
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22353955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Constance A Cook (0000-0001-7956-4789, Lehigh University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-146 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Chinese Medicine and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2589-9627 • E-ISSN: 2589-9473 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000055 |
| OpenAlex | W4365504726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay will review the earliest case that documents a patient’s experience of qi , one found on a bamboo text buried with the patient who died in the 318 BCE. Details of the healing encounter and of concepts of illness show how non-transmitted documents hidden from later editors in tombs preserve an older layer of medical understanding than that in transmitted canons, such as the Huang Di Nei Jing ( Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor ). The 4th-century BCE case record described below is the longest early medical record concerning the treatment of a specific individual. It is also an account of failure formally recorded for the sake of the survivors and buried with the dead to be transmitted to the world of the spirits. The essay begins with a reevaluation of ancient concept of qi and then moves on to the individual case record
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Biography · Emperor · Historical record · Literature · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |