[Rezension von: Li, Lan A.: Body maps : improvising meridians and nerves in global chinese medicine]
Revolving around a stunning range of meridians - a certain set of lines and dots to paint out jingluo - Lan A. Li’s Body Maps writes a compelling history of the body. It problematizes the time-honoured Chinese medical technique of mapping bodily structures and functions against jingluo by examining...
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | English |
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05 May 2026
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Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences
Year: 2026, Pages: 1-2 |
| ISSN: | 1468-4373 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jhmas/jrag024 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrag024
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| Author Notes: | Yijie Huang |
| Summary: | Revolving around a stunning range of meridians - a certain set of lines and dots to paint out jingluo - Lan A. Li’s Body Maps writes a compelling history of the body. It problematizes the time-honoured Chinese medical technique of mapping bodily structures and functions against jingluo by examining how they continued to merge with the nervous system. Readers are rewarded with an intimate look at their many uneasy entanglements from the early modern period to the present, both as images and as bodily realities. More than that, from the persistent attempts to make jingluo and nerves mutually informed arise critical questions about the tension between the body’s form and formation, the translation of sensation across cultures and media, and the global and national agendas in the making of Chinese medicine. Exhibiting how meridians morphed across a sheer variety of languages, societies, ideologies, and materials, the book prompts thought on the dual existence of the body in its constantly changing representations and invariably sensible presentation. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 18.06.2026 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1468-4373 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jhmas/jrag024 |