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Good Formulas - Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts (Paperback)
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Good Formulas - Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts (Paperback)
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Why and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices
through personal experience rise to prominence in China? This
question is at the heart of Good Formulas, the first book-length
study of the use of empirical evidence in Chinese medicine between
the ninth and thirteenth centuries. The rise of this new approach
to substantiating knowledge, which had appeared only sporadically
in earlier medical literature, provides a window into
transformations in the construction of textual authority in
mid-imperial China. Focusing on medical genres and working
extensively with notebooks (biji), Ruth Yun-Ju Chen shows that
employing empirical evidence became prominent in conjunction with a
publishing boom that enabled wider availability of medical texts
and treatises. To convince a more socioculturally diverse
readership to believe their claims and to win intertextual debates
with contemporaneous authors, many Song medical authors turned to
empirical methodology. Revealing a correlation between publishing
cultures and changes in persuasion strategies in medical genres,
Good Formulas offers new insights into the histories of medicine,
knowledge production, and publishing in China. It also provides
rich examples for scholars interested in the development of
empirical evidence in the premodern world.
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