Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 by Linda L. Barnes

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848

Linda L. Barnes

458 pages 2005

2 editions

nonfiction health history informative slow-paced
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When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In "Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts," Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncov...

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