Curved Spine: The Shape of Spine in Taoist Body Diagrams and Its Influence on Medical Body Diagrams

• Asıl Yazarlar: Xinyue ZHANG (Yazar), Shujian ZHANG (Yazar), Yang YANG (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Wolters Kluwer Health/LWW, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: article
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Abstract. From the early Taoist diagrams of the human body to the end of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Taoists exaggerated and deformed the human spine in a shape-shifting manner. It is likely that medical practitioners were influenced by this style of representation,...