Fluid matter(s)

Titel:	Fluid matter(s) : flow and transformation in the history of the body / edited by Natalie Köhle and Shigehisa Kuriyama
Beteiligt:	Köhle, Natalie (Herausgeber) ; Kuriyama, Shigehisa (Herausgeber)
Veröffentlicht:	Canberra : Australian National University Press, 2020
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk:	Asian studies series
Schlagworte:	Konferenzschrift Canberra
ISBN:	1760463876 ; 9781760463878

Bemerkung:	Literaturangaben Format: Read online (HTML)
Zusammenfassung:	Introduction / Natalie Köhle and Shigehisa Kuriyama -- 1. Manipulating flow. Turbulence / Brooke Holmes ; Whose life is water, whose food is blood / Lisa Allette Brooks ; Bloodletting in Mongolia / Natasha Fijn ; Fluid feelings / Angelika C. Messner and Shigehisa Kuriyama -- 2. Incorporating flow. Life and excrement / Shigehisa Kuriyama ; Fluid being / Yan LIu and Shigehisa Kuriyama ; Intoxicating transformations / James McHugh -- 3. Structuring flow. Sunk from sight / Lan A. Li ; Spirit, sweet, and Qi / Natalie Köhle ; Whence cometh sad tears / Ya Zuo ; Fat matters / Nina Sellars -- Epilogue / Shigehisa Kuriyama Once upon a time, doctors across Eurasia imagined human beings in ways that strike us today as profoundly strange and alien. For over 2,000 years, they worried anxiously about fluids to which our modern doctors spare hardly a thought (such as sweat, phlegm and qi) and they obsessed over details (such as whether a person’s pores were open or closed) whose meaning and vital importance has now largely faded from memory. Through a series of case studies from Europe, India, China, Mongolia and Japan, Fluid Matter(s) suggests ways to make sense of this strange and dimly remembered past, and urges us to reflect anew on the significance of fluids and flows in the history of medicine. The book also urges us, more generally, to reimagine the way in which we narrate history. The articles here are essays, in the original French sense. They are exploratory trials, experiments to illustrate some of the ways in which digital texts can go beyond the affordances of print. They test visual effects that are inconceivable on a paper page, but that are easily conjured on an electronic screen. Fluid Matter(s) is the first work of its kind: a study that narrates the body’s past in a form that embodies new futures for narrative

Bemerkung:

Literaturangaben
Format: Read online (HTML)

Zusammenfassung:

Introduction / Natalie Köhle and Shigehisa Kuriyama -- 1. Manipulating flow. Turbulence / Brooke Holmes ; Whose life is water, whose food is blood / Lisa Allette Brooks ; Bloodletting in Mongolia / Natasha Fijn ; Fluid feelings / Angelika C. Messner and Shigehisa Kuriyama -- 2. Incorporating flow. Life and excrement / Shigehisa Kuriyama ; Fluid being / Yan LIu and Shigehisa Kuriyama ; Intoxicating transformations / James McHugh -- 3. Structuring flow. Sunk from sight / Lan A. Li ; Spirit, sweet, and Qi / Natalie Köhle ; Whence cometh sad tears / Ya Zuo ; Fat matters / Nina Sellars -- Epilogue / Shigehisa Kuriyama
Once upon a time, doctors across Eurasia imagined human beings in ways that strike us today as profoundly strange and alien. For over 2,000 years, they worried anxiously about fluids to which our modern doctors spare hardly a thought (such as sweat, phlegm and qi) and they obsessed over details (such as whether a person’s pores were open or closed) whose meaning and vital importance has now largely faded from memory. Through a series of case studies from Europe, India, China, Mongolia and Japan, Fluid Matter(s) suggests ways to make sense of this strange and dimly remembered past, and urges us to reflect anew on the significance of fluids and flows in the history of medicine. The book also urges us, more generally, to reimagine the way in which we narrate history. The articles here are essays, in the original French sense. They are exploratory trials, experiments to illustrate some of the ways in which digital texts can go beyond the affordances of print. They test visual effects that are inconceivable on a paper page, but that are easily conjured on an electronic screen. Fluid Matter(s) is the first work of its kind: a study that narrates the body’s past in a form that embodies new futures for narrative

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