The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine

书名：The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
作者：ShigehisaKuriyama
译者：
ISBN：9780942299892
出版社：ZoneBooks
出版时间：2002-3-15
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：256
豆瓣评分： 9.4

书籍简介：

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.

作者简介：

栗山茂久（Shigehisa Kuriyama）教授是哈佛大學科學史博士，曾在京都的國際日本文化研究中心講學與研究多年，專攻比較醫學史。大約三年前栗山教授被哈佛大學挖墙角，目前任教於東亞系與科學史系主任、赖肖尔文化史讲座教授。

书友短评：

@ Change it A.D. 西方恐惧过剩，东方恐惧污染。在我个人来看，两者看似不同，其实却相同，都是对积累的恐惧。前者是自我的能动性造成的积累，后者是自我与环境之间的失调造成的积累。栗山强调了东方对自我和健康认知的内在矛盾，自我一方面要与外部环境和谐，另一方面又必须与环境割裂。这个矛盾是我比较欣赏的，这样就避免了把东方躯体描述成被动的躯体这个问题。Jastrow rabbit/duck是重点。中希医学不仅对相同的符号的理解不同，就连对于什么是符号都有不同的理解，而这种不同的最终原因，是对人的自我认知的不同。 @ 吃饱了撑着才 古希腊和中国传统医学的身体观比较，看了前两个（据评论说是最精华的）部分，叹服，很多想法现在看来也不过时，可以时时回看找灵感。中西比较的大框架并没有流于空泛，而是因为对具体实践/技术 (比如切脉)的细致观察而血肉丰满。作者能够在话语的历史和感觉的历史之间穿梭，轻快细腻的语言功不可没。 @ exit He's such an elegant writer and thinker that you almost wanted to forgive his non-critical use of his sources.

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