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ReOrienting Histories of Medicine Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

ReOrienting Histories of Medicine By Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

ReOrienting Histories of Medicine by Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

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ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads by Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world - Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz - the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent. This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history.

ReOrienting Histories of Medicine Reviews

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and significant historians of Asian medicine active today. ... while ReOrienting is both informative and theoretically sophisticated, it is also quite readable. * Buddhist Studies Review *
The research underpinning ReOrienting Histories of Medicine is careful; the diverse materials at the center of it are fascinating. The discussions on the transmission of medical knowledge will resonate for readers who work on different con- texts and periods ... [T]he book is a suitable read for those interested in diverse histories of medicine and for survey courses on the global history of medicine. * H-Net Reviews *
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim draws on materials from the Bower Manuscript, the Genizah repository in Cairo, and cave 17 in Dunhuang to explain how medical knowledge moved across cultural contact zones and spread through Eurasia. Through reading sources in an unusual combination of languages, this study constitutes an impressive breakthrough in Silk Road studies. * Valerie Hansen, Professor of History, Yale University, USA *
Compact and readable, and yet richly informative about the interactions between a wonderful diversity of linguistic and scholarly traditions, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine will now be the first book that I recommend to students for orientation about the early history of Eurasian medical exchange. * Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard University, USA *

About Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is Reader in History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of Rashid al-Din: Agent and mediator of cultural exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran (2013), Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes (2010) and Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West (2008).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Transliterations and Abbreviations Introduction: Medical Encounters along the Silk Roads 1. Narrating Eurasian Origins of Medical Knowledge 2. Of Dice and Medicine: Interactions in Central Asian 'Contact Zones' 3. Myrobalans: The Making of a Eurasian Panacea 4. Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang: Practices and Images on the Move 5. Medicine of the Bakhshis: Cross-Pollinations in Buddhist Iran Afterword Bibliography Index

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NLS9781350195820
9781350195820
1350195820
ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads by Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2022-07-28
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