Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine

Herausgeber: Chiang, Howard

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Topics range from the spread of gingko's popularity from East Asia to the West to the appeal of acupuncture for complementing in-vitro fertilisation regimens, and from the modernisation of Chinese anatomy and forensic science to the evolving perceptions of the clinical efficacy of Chinese medicine. The book uses a powerful theoretical-methodological approach, historical epistemology, to challenge the status of such basic scientific constructs as knowledge, reason, argument, objectivity, evidence, fact and truth. In studying the globalizing role of medical objects, the contested ideas of medical authority and legitimacy, and the transformations of metaphysical and ontological knowledge, its contributors illuminate how the historical study of Chinese medicine and its practices of knowledge-making in the modern period must be both philosophically and transnationally informed. This book will appeal to students and scholars working in science studies and medical humanities as well as readers who are interested in the broader problems of translation, material culture and the global circulation of knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780719096006
• ISBN-10: 0719096006
• Artikelnr.: 42372917

Autorenporträt

Howard Chiang is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. "Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese
medicine" Howard Chiang Part I. Objects 2. Kuang-chi Hung, "Within the
Lungs, the Stomach, and the Mind: Convergences and Divergences in the
Medical and Natural Histories of Ginkgo biloba" [4 illustrations] 3. Yi-Li
Wu, "Bodily Knowledge and Western Learning in Late Imperial China: The Case
of Wang Shixiong (1808-68)" [1 illustration] 4. Bridie Andrews, "Blood in
the History of Modern Chinese Medicine" [5 illustrations] Part II.
Authority 5. Daniel Asen, "The Only Options? 'Experience' and 'Theory' in
Debates Over Forensic Knowledge and Expertise in Early Twentieth-Century
China" 6. David Luesink, "State Power, Governmentality, and the
(Mis)Remembrance of Chinese Medicine" 7. Eric Karchmer, "Slow Medicine: How
Chinese Medicine Became Efficacious Only for Chronic Conditions" Part III.
Existence 8. Judith Farquhar, "Metaphysics at the Bedside" 9. Leon Antonio
Rocha, "How to Make 'Acubabies'" Index