The art of medicine in early China : the ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive / Miranda Brown, University of Michigan.

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

xv, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Chapter 1 of this book was originally published in Medical History, volume 56, no. 3 (2012). Chapter 4 of this book was originally published in Chang'an 26 BCE : An Augustan Age in China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Attendant He : innovator or persona? -- Bian Que as a seer : political persuaders and the medical imagination -- Chunyu Yi : can the healer speak? -- Liu Xiang : the imperial library and the creation of the exemplary healer list -- Zhang Ji : the kaleidoscopic father -- Huangfu Mi : from innovator to transmitter.