Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/2/1995
EAN 9780521480710, ISBN10: 052148071X
Hardcover, 384 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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. Such medical knowledge is special, operating as it does in the realm of the most fundamental human experiences - health, disease, suffering, birth and death - and the credibility of healers is of crucial importance. Because of this, scholarly medical knowledge offers a rich field for the study of different cultural practices in the legitimation of knowledge generally. The contributors to this volume are all specialists in the history or anthropology of these traditions, and their essays range from historical investigations to studies of present-day practices.
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Scholarly ways of knowing
an introduction Don Bates
Part I. Scholarly Medicine in the West
2. Epistemological arguments in early Greek medicine in comparativist perspective G. E. R. Lloyd
3. Autopsia, historia and what women know
the authority of women in Hippocratic gynaecology Lesley Dean-Jones
4. The growth of medical empiricism Robert James Hankinson
5. Scholarship and social context
a medical case from the eleventh-century Near East Lawrence I. Conrad
6. The experience of the book
manuscripts, texts, and the role of epistemology in early medieval medicine Faith Wallis
7. Artifex factivus sanitatis
health and medical care in medieval Latin Galenism Luis GarcÃÂa-Ballester
8. Epistemology and learned medicine in early modern England Andrew Wear
Part II. Chinese Traditional Medicine
9. Text and experience in classical Chinese medicine Nathan Sivin
10. Visual knowledge in classical Chinese medicine Shigehisa Kuriyama
11. A deathly disorder
understanding women's health in late imperial China Francesca Bray
12. Re-writing traditional medicine in post-Maoist China Judith Farquhar
Part III. Ayurvedic Medicine
13. Writing the body and ruling the land
Western reflections on Chinese and Indian medicine Margaret Trawick
14. The scholar, the wise man, and universals
three aspects of Ayurvedic medicine Francis Zimmerman
15. The epistemological carnival
meditations on disciplinary intentionality and Ayurveda Lawrence Cohen
Part IV. Commentaries
16. Commentary Amos Funkenstein
17. Commentary Allan Young
Index.