Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine

Lo, Vivienne; Stanley-Baker, Michael; Yang, Dolly

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“…In the 1950s, after the Communist Revolution, efforts were made to 'unify' what was considered traditional Chinese and Western medicine, including through medical education. 40 This is one of the themes that Steven Pieragastini and Martin Robert analyse in this issue, looking specifically at the case of Shanghai.…”

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Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots

Cho,

Robert

2024

Med. Hist.

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This article provides an overview of the historiography of medical education and calls for greater attention to the connections between medical schools. It begins by reviewing research on medical education in imperial metropoles. Researchers have compared medical schools in different national contexts, traced travellers between them or examined the hierarchies that medical education created within the medical profession. The article then shows how historians have emphasised the ways in which medicine in colonial empires was shaped by negotiation, exchange, hybridisation and competition. The final part of the article introduces the special issue ‘Medical Education in Empires’. Drawing on a variety of sources in English, French, Dutch and Chinese, the special issue builds on these historiographies by juxtaposing cases of medical schools in imperial contexts since the eighteenth century. It considers who funded these medical schools and why, what models of medicine underpinned their creation, what social changes they contributed to, what life was like in these schools, who the students and teachers were and what graduates did with their medical careers. This special issue thus contributes to clarifying the role of medical education in empires and the long-term impact of empires on the medical world.

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Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots

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Robert

2024

Med. Hist.

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“…The discovery of bamboo, silk, and wood texts since the 1970s, however, has revolutionized paleography and our understanding of ancient words. 23,39 3 Ancient illness and a case study…”

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The First Documented Experience of Qi and an Account of Healing Failure: 4th-Century BCE

Cook

2023

Chinese Medicine and Culture

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This essay will review the earliest case that documents a patient’s experience of qi, one found on a bamboo text buried with the patient who died in the 318 BCE. Details of the healing encounter and of concepts of illness show how non-transmitted documents hidden from later editors in tombs preserve an older layer of medical understanding than that in transmitted canons, such as the Huang Di Nei Jing (Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor). The 4th-century BCE case record described below is the longest early medical record concerning the treatment of a specific individual. It is also an account of failure formally recorded for the sake of the survivors and buried with the dead to be transmitted to the world of the spirits. The essay begins with a reevaluation of ancient concept of qi and then moves on to the individual case record.

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Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia

Cook

2023

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This Element first discusses the creation of transmitted medical canons that are generally dated from early imperial times through the medieval era and then, by way of contrast, provides translations and analyses of non-transmitted texts from the pre-imperial late Shang and Zhou eras, the early imperial Qin and Han eras, and then a brief discussion covering the period through the 11th-c. CE. The Element focuses on the evolution of concepts, illness categories, and diagnostic and treatment methodologies evident in the newly discovered material and reveals a side of medical practice not reflected in the canons. It is both traditions of healing, the canons and the currents of local practice revealed by these texts, that influenced the development of East Asian medicine more broadly. The local practices show there was no real evolution from magical to non-magical medicine. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine

Cited by 6 publications

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Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots

Medical schools in empires: connecting the dots

The First Documented Experience of Qi and an Account of Healing Failure: 4th-Century BCE

Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia

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