Overview
- Offers a complete English translation of the first historical collection of medical case records ever compiled by a physician in China
- Enables international readers to better understand the clinical scene in China during the 12th century
- Provides readers with a first-hand perspective on how a Chinese physician perceived his patients, their conditions, and how he treated them
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 54)
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Table of contents (91 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Chinese medicine
- History of medicine
- Song dynasty
- Medical practice
- Evolution of Medicine
- Xu Shuwei
- 12th century China
- Cold damage disorders
- Song Dynasty physician
- Medical case history
- The Literati physicians
- Xu's case histories
- Song medicine
- medical case records
- Biography of Xu Shuwei
- Northern Song Dynasty
- Xu's cases
- twelfth-century medical practice
- nosology
- traditional chinese medicine
About this book
This book is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun 傷寒九十論) – which was the first such collection in China. The translation reveals patterns of social as well as medical history. This book provides the readers with a distinctive first hand perspective on twelfth-century medical practice, including medical aspects, such as nosology, diagnosis, treatment, and doctrinal reasoning supporting them. It also presents the social aspect of medical practice, detailing the various participants in the medical encounter, their role, the power relations within the encounter, and the location where the encounter occurred. Reading the translation of Xu’s cases allows the readers high-resolution snapshots of medicine and medical practice as reflected from the case records documented by this leading twelfth-century physician. The detailed introduction to the translation contextualizes Xu’s life and medical practice in the broader changes of this transformative era.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China – A Translation of Xu Shuwei’s Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders
Authors: Asaf Goldschmidt
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06103-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06102-9Published: 10 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-06103-6Published: 28 June 2019
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 322
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Medicine, History of Science, Traditional Chinese Medicine