| Description |
1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I CHINA; 1 Epidemics, Weather, and Contagion in Traditional Chinese Medicine; 2 Dispersing the Foetal Toxin of the Body: Conceptions of Smallpox Aetiology in Pre-modern China; 3 The Threatening Stranger: Kewu in Pre-Modern Chinese Paediatrics; II INDIA; 4 Notions of ""Contagion"" in Classical Indian Medical Texts; 5 Does Ancient Indian Medicine Have a Theory of Contagion?; III MIDDLE EAST and EUROPE; 6 Old Testament ""Leprosy"", Contagion and Sin; 7 Did the Greeks Have a Word for It? |
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8 A Ninth-Century Muslim Scholar's Discussion of Contagion9 Contagion and Leprosy: Myth, Ideas and Evolution in Medieval Minds and Societies; Contributors; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social aspects
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Social aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wujastyk, Dominik
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| ISBN |
9781351949248 |
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1351949241 |
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