History of Chinese Medicine from Antiquity to the Present Directed Readings for Field 中華醫學史 Johns Hopkins University Fall 2012 Course #140.875.01 Prof. Marta Hanson W 4-6:00
[email protected] SCHEDULE OF WEEKLY DISCUSSIONS WEEK 1 Comparing Medicine in Ancient China and Greece Sept 12,Wed. Philosophical and Historical Approaches to Cultural Comparisons Readings: Kuriyama, Expressiveness of the Body, Sivin and Lloyd, The Way and the Word Undergraduate E Reserve Readings: 1. Unschuld, “Inspection,” Huangdi neijing suwen (2003): 247-251 and “Wind Etiology and Pathology,” Huangdi neijing suwen (2003): 183-89. WEEK 2 Archeology and Medicine: Shang (1766-1154) to Zhou (1122-255) Sept 19 Wed. From Mythology to History: The Shang Oracle Bones (1200-1050 BCE) E-Reserve Readings: 1. ch. 1, “The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang Dynasty,” 3-23. From DeBary, Wm. Theodore, and Irene Bloom, eds. Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Columbia University Press, 1999). 2. Robert Eno, “Deities and Ancestors in Early Oracle Inscriptions,” in Lopez, ed. Religions of China in Practice (Princeton 1996): 41-51. 3. Donald Harper, “Spellbinding,” in Donald Lopez, Jr. ed., Religions of China in Practice (Princeton 1996): 241-50. Response #1 EVALUATING ARCHEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE 2 pgs/500 words Discuss how 2 of these authors use archeological evidence in their arguments about medicine in Chinese antiquity. Additional Readings: 1. Gilles Boileau, "Wu and Shaman." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 65, no. 2 (2002): 350-378. 2. Lothar von Falkenhausen, "Reflections on the Political Role of Spirit Mediums in Early China: The Wu Officials in the Zhou Li." Early China 20 (1995): 279-300.