From Alchemy to Science: Daoist Healthcare in Contemporary China
Abstract In premodern China, Daoist priests cultivated and traded herbal drugs. Many priests served as doctors for royal and aristocratic families. Given this long history, it is not surprising that Daoist institutions in present-day China have tapped into a demand for traditional healing. Many temp...
| Published in: | Review of Religion and Chinese Society |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Brill
2020
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| In: |
Review of Religion and Chinese Society
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
China
/ Health care
/ Taoism
/ Healer
/ Chinese medicine
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Shaanxi province
B Chinese medicine B Mount Yaowang B Daoist temples B Sun Simiao |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (Verlag) |