Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part 6: Medicine

Science and Civilisation in China #6.6

by Joseph Needham, Nathan Sivin (Editor), C. Cullen (Editor)

The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction discusses these essays, placing them in their historical and medical context, and surveys recent medical discoveries from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.

Genres: History, China, Nonfiction, Science, Medicine

280 pages, Hardcover

First published May 25, 1984

About the author

Joseph Needham was a British biochemist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and a fellow of the British Academy in 1971. In 1992, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him the Companionship of Honour, and the Royal Society noted he was the only living person to hold these three titles.

Reviews

[Scott Feero · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have 16 volumes of Needham's Science and Civilisation in China; extraordinary breadth.

For anyone interested, there is a condensed version that covers the salient points.

Otherwise each Cambridge vol. is Ridiculously expensive.

[Em · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hate the writing style but the information was good.

[Ivan Savić · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very detailed description of chinese agriculture, but also agriculture in general.