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(More customer reviews)Professor Harper in this text takes a detailed look at the contents and historical significance of the Ma Wang Dui medical manuscripts. These manuscripts were unearthed in China in the early 1970's and represent an extant completely unedited group of medical writings from about 2,000 years ago.
This is particilarly significant since most of the classic texts of Chinese medicine we have today have been edited significantly even if they are ancient in origin. The Ma Wang Dui texts give historians a glimpse into what Chinese intelligensia was reading in terms of medical information. The Ma Wang Dui manuscripts are also conspicuously lacking in any information about acupuncture - even though other therapies such as herbal medicine and moxabustion are presented. This of course challenges the unfounded historical belief in the age of acupuncture as a therapy.
I use this text for a class I teach on Chinese medical classics and history. Not for acupuncturists looking for new techniques and not for the lay person, but an excellent text for historians and Oriental Medicine professionals who want a detailed look into the earliest periods of the science.
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