南國島夷：古代東亞與中國中古研究

講　題：“The Varieties of Health Care in Eleventh-century China”

主講人：Nathan Sivin (Professor Emeritus of Chinese Culture and of the History

of Science, University of Pennsylvania)

日　時：March 25(Wed), 2009, at 12:00~

會　場：Cohen Hall 203(Center for East Asian Studies, 642 Williams Hall, 255 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

內容簡介：

Previous work on Chinese medical history has studied only the classical tradition. The great majority of Chinese before modern time “rural, illiterate, and poor” had no access to its elite practitioners. Most depended on local healers, or on masters of the popular religion, or of Buddhist or Daoist movements, whose therapies were mainly ritual. Sivin’s current research will describe spectrum from self-therapy and family therapy through popular healing to classical medicine, and study their interactions.