Antiquarianism, language, and medical philology : from early modern to modern Sino-Japanese medical discourses

Antiquarianism, language, and medical philology : from early modern to modern Sino-Japanese medical discourses / edited by Benjamin A. Elman.

This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology. Philology in particular allows the authors to address the changing meaning of the same term, which often reflected well-known metaphors in...

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Other Authors: Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 12.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Traditional medicine > China > History.
Traditional medicine > Japan > History.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Medicine
Traditional medicine
China > History > 18th century.
Japan > History > 18th century.
China
Japan
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking the Sino-Japanese medical classics : antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology / Benjamin A. Elman
  • Reasoning with cases : the transmission of clinical medical knowledge in twelfth-century song China / Asaf Goldschmidt
  • Illness, texts, and "schools" in Danxi medicine : a new look at Chinese medical history from 1320 to 1800 / Fabien Simonis
  • Ancient texts and new medical ideas in eighteenth-century Japan / Daniel Trambaiolo
  • The reception of the circulation channels theory in Japan (1500-1800) / Mathias Vigouroux
  • A village doctor and the treatise on cold damage disorders (Shanghan lun???) : medical theory / medical practice in late Tokugawa Japan / Susan L. Burns
  • Honzogaku after Seibutsugaku : traditional pharmacology as antiquarianism after the institutionalization of modern biology in early Meiji Japan / Federico Marcon
  • Japanese medical texts in Chinese on kakke in the Tokugawa and early Meiji periods / Angela Ki Che Leung
  • Yang Shoujing and the Kojima family : collection and publication of medical classics / Mayanagi Makoto, with Takashi Miura and Mathias Vigouroux.

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