Resumen de Translation at Work: Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age, by Harold J. Cook, ed.,
Harold J. Cook, ed.,, Translation at Work: Chinese Medicine in the First Global Age. Leiden: Brill; Boston, MA: Rodopi, 2020. xii, 214 pp. 14 illus. ISBN: 978-90-04-38773-7.
Translation at Work, edited by Harold Cook, explores the early modern globalization of medical knowledges and practices originating from China. The volume develops an enticing approach towards the “global turn” taken by historians of science over the last few decades. By reconstructing historical efforts to translate, transmit, and interpret Chinese medical texts and practices across several transcultural contexts—spanning from Persia to Japan to France and beyond—Translation at ...
