Screen LibraryContagion：perspectives from pre-modern societies
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Ashgate,
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| Publisher Address: | Aldershot, England Burlington, Vt. |
| Publication Dates: | c2000. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 224 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0754602583 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | R51 |
| CLC: | R51-09 |
| Call Number: | R51-09/C759 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Epidemics, weather, and contagion in traditional Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama -- Dispersing the foetal toxin of the body : conceptions of smallpox aetiology in pre-modern China / Chia-Feng Chang -- The threatening stranger : Kewu in pre-modern Chinese paediatrics / Christopher Cullen -- Notions of "contagion" in classical Indian medical texts / Rahul Peter Das -- Does ancient Indian medicine have a theory of contagion? / Kenneth G. Zysk -- Old testament "leprosy", contagion and sin / Elinor Lieber -- Did the Greeks have a word for it? / Vivian Nutton -- A ninth-century Muslim scholar's discussion of contagion / Lawrence I. Conrad -- Contagion and leprosy : myth, ideas and evolution in medieval minds and societies / François-Olivier Touati. |