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At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma.The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into the past, and our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds.The Expressiveness of the Body meditates on the contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. It asks how this most basic of human realities came to be conceived by two sophisticated civilizations in radically diverging ways. And it seeks answers in fresh and unexpected topics, such as the history of tactile knowledge, the relationship between ways of seeing and ways of listening, and the evolution of bloodletting.
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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
Shigehisa Kuriyama
ZONE BOOKS NEW YORK 1999
title
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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
author
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Kuriyama, Shigehisa.
publisher
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MIT Press
isbn10 | asin
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0942299884
print isbn13
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9780942299885
ebook isbn13
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9780585077369
language
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English
subject
Medicine, Chinese--Philosophy, Medicine, Greek and Roman--Philosophy, Body, Human--Social aspects.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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R723.K87 1999eb
ddc
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610/.951
subject
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Medicine, Chinese--Philosophy, Medicine, Greek and Roman--Philosophy, Body, Human--Social aspects.
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Shigehisa Kuriyama 1999 Zone Books 611 Broadway, Suite 608 New York, NY 10012
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Printed in the United States of America.
Distributed by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kuriyama, Shigehisa The expressiveness of the body and the divergence of Greek and Chinese medicine/ Shigehisa Kuriyama. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-942299-88-4 1. Medicine, Chinese Philosophy. 2. Medicine, Greek and Roman Philosophy. 3. Body, Human Social aspects. I. Title. R723.K87 1999 610'.951dc2198-37210 CIP
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CONTENTS
Preface
7
Part One Styles Of Touching
I Grasping the Language of Life
17
II The Expressiveness of Words
61
Part Two Styles Of Seeing
III Muscularity and Identity
111
IV The Expressiveness of Colors
153
Part Three Styles Of Being
V Blood and Life
195
VI Wind and Self
233
Epilogue
271
Bibliographical Note
273
Notes
275
Chinese and Japanese Names and Terms
331
Index
337
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PREFACE
Versions of the truth sometimes differ so startlingly that the very idea of truth becomes suspect. Akutagawa Ryunosuke's haunting tale about this mystery admits two certainties: a woman has been violated by a bandit, and her husband lies in a grove, stabbed dead.
The captured bandit confesses that he killed the husband, but pleads that the woman had goaded him on. Murder hadn't been his intentbut the woman had insisted. She could not, would not tolerate two witnesses to her shame walking the earth. Kill yourself or my husband, she had said. Well, he had no choice.
Yet the woman confides that she killed her husbandat his own behest. As he sat silent, bound and humiliated, his eyes had spoken unmistakably of contempt and hard hatred. "Kill me," they had commanded. She realized then that they both had to die, the disgrace was too awful. But she had fainted after plunging her knife into him, and failed, finally, to end her own life.
The dead man testifies through a medium. "I killed myself," his anguished voice cries out. The horror of watching on, impotent, as his wife had first been raped and had then become enraptured, was too much. "Kill my husband," she had urged the bandit. "Take me away with you, anywhere." Death is an easy choice for a man whose wife can say such words.
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What really happened? Was the husband murdered by his wife? By the bandit? Or was it suicide? Do even the dead deceive? Akutagawa never tells us which version to believeor whether to believe any of them.
A similar riddle lies at the heart of the history of medicine. The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we look into history, and our sense of reality wavers. Like the confessions of the bandit, the woman, and the dead man, accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions frequently appear to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds.
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