Abstract:Shifting focus from the patient’s body to the healer’s body, this essay focuses on how Chinese physicians instrumentalized their bodies to heal (i.e., body-as-technology) and their hands to think with (i.e., hand-memory techniques or simply, hand mnemonics).When physicians used their hands to memorize concepts related to clinical practice, calculate with time variables, and carry out ritual gestures intended to reduce risk, improve fortune, and even cure, their hands became extensions of their minds. This essa… Show more
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