ReOrienting Histories of Medicine - by Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"ReOrienting Histories of Medicine takes a cross-cultural approach that provides a re-appraisal of the 'globalized' character of early medicine. It re-orients medical history, and emphasizes the role of the transmission of medical ideas and practices between European and Asian cultures. Using original research taken from the medical findings of Dunhuang, Turpan and Cairo Genizah, this book contextualizes the history of Euro-Asian medical encounters, from Greco-Indic early contacts to the present adoptions of mindfulness in psychotherapy"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<br/><br/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Compact and readable, and yet richly informative about the interactions between a wonderful diversity of linguistic and scholarly traditions, <i>ReOrienting Histories of Medicine</i> will now be the first book that I recommend to students for orientation about the early history of Eurasian medical exchange.<br/>Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard University, USA<br><br>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.<br/>Valerie Hansen, Professor of History, Yale University, USA<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim </b>is Reader in History at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of <i>Rashid al-Din: Agent and mediator of cultural exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran</i> (2013), <i>Islam and Tibet: Interactions along the Musk Routes</i> (2010) and <i>Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West</i> (2008).
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