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The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine

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Two terms for wind prevail in Chinese medical texts and practice: qi and feng. Shigehisa Kuriyama noted that qi usually referred to regular and feng to unruly winds. This is not contested in this paper, but it considers these connotations of wind a characteristic of qi and feng in late imperial China in particular, and calls for an account that is more sensitive to historical change. Based on a study of twenty-five medical case histories in the 105th chapter of the Records of the Historian (S...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Sub department:
Social & Cultural Anthropology
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Publisher:
Blackwell Publishing Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) Journal website
Volume:
13
Issue:
s1
Pages:
S117-S134
Publication date:
2007-04-01
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EISSN:
1467-9655
ISSN:
1359-0987
Language:
English
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Deposit date:
2008-09-29

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