Assembling the Cure: Materia Medica and the Culture of Healing in Late Imperial China

Assembling the Cure: Materia Medica and the Culture of Healing in Late Imperial China

This dissertation examines the intersection between the culture of knowledge and socio-economic conditions of late Ming and Qing China (1550-1800) through the lens of materia medica. I argue that medicine in China during this time developed new characteristics that emphasized the centrality of drug...

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Main Author: Bian, He
Other Authors: Kuriyama, Shigehisa
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
Subjects:
History of science
Asian history
Medicine
early modern history
Materia medica
Ming-Qing China
natural philosophy
publishing and book history
sociology of knowledge
Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11449
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12269850

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