TY - JOUR
T1 - Anatomy in ancient China
T2 - The yellow emperor's inner canon of medicine and wang qingren's correcting the errors in the forest of medicine
AU - Loukas, Marios
AU - Ferrauiola, Julie
AU - Shoja, Mohammadali M.
AU - Tubbs, R. Shane
AU - Cohen-Gadol, Aaron A.
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - Although clouded by mysticism and ancestral worship, early Chinese civilization did make many important and often overlooked contributions to our current understanding of human anatomy. This article reviews these early contributions and focuses on the landmark writings of two of the most influential Chinese texts, the Huang Di Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon of Medicine) attributed to Huang di, and Wang Qingren's Yi Lin Gai Cuo (Correcting the Errors in the Forest of Medicine). These sources made significant contributions to the Chinese understanding of anatomy and served to promote the study of human anatomy both in early China and in regional countries like Japan.
AB - Although clouded by mysticism and ancestral worship, early Chinese civilization did make many important and often overlooked contributions to our current understanding of human anatomy. This article reviews these early contributions and focuses on the landmark writings of two of the most influential Chinese texts, the Huang Di Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon of Medicine) attributed to Huang di, and Wang Qingren's Yi Lin Gai Cuo (Correcting the Errors in the Forest of Medicine). These sources made significant contributions to the Chinese understanding of anatomy and served to promote the study of human anatomy both in early China and in regional countries like Japan.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77951537347
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U2 - 10.1002/ca.20979
DO - 10.1002/ca.20979
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77951537347
SN - 0897-3806
VL - 23
SP - 364
EP - 369
JO - Clinical Anatomy
JF - Clinical Anatomy
IS - 4
ER -