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. The ways in which practitioners used these texts varied among historical periods and cultures, providing a rich field for the study of different cultural practices in the legitimation of knowledge. The essays in this volume, contributed by specialists in the history and anthropology of these traditions, range from historical investigations to studies of present-day practices.
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"...the book encloses rich lodes of scholarship which the explorer can mine with profit, receiving not only new information but flashes of new insight, according to his or her own background." Lester S. King, Journal of the History of Medicine
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The ways in which the Galenic, Chinese and Ayurvedic medical traditions relied upon ancient texts varied among periods and cultures, providing a rich field for the study of cultural practices. The essays in this volume range from historical investigations to studies of the present.
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ming laozhongyi, constructive substances, clouded road, medieval medical manuscripts, victus ratione, medical knowing, scholarly medicine, early medieval medicine, epistemic knowing, gnostic knowing, superior knowers, artis medicinae, scholarly medical traditions, humoral physiology, acrid substances, learned medicine, medical market place, radical moisture, vital circulation, gnostic way, scientia media, medical scholarship, classical medicine, indicative sign, learned physicians Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Yellow Lord, Dong Demao, Cambridge University Press, Deng Tietao, Inner Canon, New York, Thomas Aquinas, Judith Farquhar, University of California Press, Bian Que, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Latin West, Nathan Sivin, Hong Kong, Big Room, Charles Leslie, Pien Ch'ueh, Conan Doyle, Ibn Butlan, Owsei Temkin, Sherlock Holmes, Acute Diseases, Albert the Great, Asian Medical Knowledge New!
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