Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions

Name: Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions
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ISBN: 9780521499750

ISBN-10: 0521499755

ISBN-13: 9780521499750

Edition: 1995

Authors: Don Bates

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However much the three great traditions of medicine - Galenic, Chinese and Ayurvedic - differed from each other, they had one thing in common: scholarship. The foundational knowledge of each could only be acquired by careful study under teachers relying on ancient texts. Such medical knowledge is special, operating as it does in the realm of the most fundamental human experiences - health, disease, suffering, birth and death - and the credibility of healers is of crucial importance. Because of this, scholarly medical knowledge offers a rich field for the study of different cultural practices in the legitimation of knowledge generally. The contributors to this volume are all specialists in…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/2/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



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List of contributors


Acknowledgements



Scholarly ways of knowing: an introduction




Scholarly Medicine in the West



Epistemological arguments in early Greek medicine in comparativist perspective




Autopsia, historia and what women know: the authority of women in Hippocratic gynaecology




The growth of medical empiricism




Scholarship and social context: a medical case from the eleventh-century Near East




The experience of the book: manuscripts, texts, and the role of epistemology in early medieval medicine




Artifex factivus sanitatis: health and medical care in medieval




Epistemology and learned medicine in early modern England




Chinese Traditional Medicine



Text and experience in classical Chinese medicine




Visual knowledge in classical Chinese medicine




A deathly disorder: understanding women's health in late imperial China




Re-writing traditional medicine in post-Maoist China




Ayurvedic Medicine



Writing the body and ruling the land: Western reflections on Chinese and Indian medicine




The scholar, the wise man, and universals: three aspects of Ayurvedic medicine




The epistemological carnival: meditations on disciplinary intentionality and Ayurveda




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