Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine / edited by Howard Chiang.
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TextSeries: Manchester History of MedicinePublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781784991906
- 1784991902
- Medicine, Chinese -- China -- History
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional -- history
- Médecine chinoise -- Chine -- Histoire
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference
- MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Atlases
- MEDICAL -- Essays
- MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Osteopathy
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland
- Medicine, Chinese
- China
- 610.9/51/09 23
- R601 .H45 2015
- WB 55.C4 H673 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine -- Objects -- Within the lungs, the stomach, and the mind: covergences and divergences in the medical and natural histories of Ginkgo biloba -- Bodily knowledge and western learning in late imperial China: the case of Wang Shixiong (1808-68) -- Blood in the history of modern Chinese medicine -- Authority -- The only options? "Experience" and "theory" in debates over forensic knowledge and expertise in early twentieth-century China -- State power, governmentality, and the (mis)rememberance of Chinese medicine -- Slow medicine: how Chinese medicine became efficacious only for chronic conditions -- Existence -- Metaphysics at the bedside -- How to make "acubabies."
Print version record.
This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations.
In English.
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