New book

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk (eds), Contagion: perspectives
from pre-modern societies, Ashgate, 2000, Aldershot, Burlington USA,
Singapore, Sydney.  ISBN 0-7546-0258-3.


Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I: China: Epidemics, weather and
contagion in traditional Chinese medicine, Shigehisa Kuriyama; Dispersing
the foetal toxin of the body: conceptions of smallpox aetiology in
pre-modern China, Chia-Feng Chang; The threatening stranger: Kewu in
pre-modern Chinese paediatrics, Christopher Cullen; Part II: India:
Notions of "contagion" in classical Indian medical texts, Rahul Peter Das;
Does ancient Indian medicine have a theory of contagion?, Kenneth G. Zysk;
Part III: Middle East and Europe: Old Testament "leprosy", contagion and
sin, Elinor Lieber; Did the Greeks have a word for it?, Vivian Nutton; A
ninth-century Muslim scholar's discussion of contagion, Lawrence I.
Conrad; Contagion and leprosy: myth, ideas and evolution in medieval minds
and societies, François-Olivier Touati; Contributors; Index.


For more details, and ordering, see 
http://www.ashgate.com/html/bookdetail.cfm?isbn=0754602583

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Dominik Wujastyk