Good formulas : empirical evidence in mid-imperial Chinese medical texts
Yunru Chen
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
| Omfang | xii, 222 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | New criteria for "good" medical formulas -- Textual claims and local investigations -- Demonstration of medical virtuosity -- The search for therapies in the far south.. - "In Song-dynasty China (960-1279), narratives based on authors' personal experience began to proliferate in medical treatises, introducing a new strategy for substantiating knowledge. The rise of this empirical approach, which had appeared only sporadically in pre-Song medical literature, provides a window into transformations in the construction of textual authority in middle-period China. Ruth Yun-Ju Chen traces this development by examining medical genres and notebooks (biji), showing that it was both a product of and a catalyst for a broader epistemic transition and the advent of a new medical learning environment"--
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| ISBN | 9780295751382. - 9780295751399
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