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SHAOYIN KIDNEY MERIDIAN OF THE FOOT ANTHROFEST 2019 ANTHROFEST 2019 1

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1 The Evolution of the Meridian System

1 MERIDIANS IN CHINA 2 MERIDIANS IN JAPAN 3 MERIDIANS TODAY Hua Shou’s Elucidation of Fourteen Meridians

1 MERIDIANS IN CHINA 2 MERIDIANS IN JAPAN 3 MERIDIANS TODAY Hua Shou’s Text in Japan

1 MERIDIANS IN CHINA 2 MERIDIANS IN JAPAN 3 MERIDIANS TODAY Meridians Today

1 MERIDIANS IN CHINA 2 MERIDIANS IN JAPAN 3 MERIDIANS TODAY 1 1 PROBLEM Why is this object important to us 2 PROCESS today? 3 CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS: RELEVANCE TODAY The Significance of this Meridian Diagram

Historical Contexts Medical Applications Cultural Understandings Visual Studies

This text offers provides This system of meridians The legends and beliefs The progression of insight into the significance is still being used which undergird this meridian representations of academic texts and in contemporary medical system provide throughout history parallels materials in trade between accupuncture. great context for practices in other representations of Japan and China. Chinese medicine that are medical anatomy, biological sustained today. structures, and other scientific concepts.

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