{"product_id":"knowledge-and-the-scholarly-medical-traditions-paperback-9780521499750","title":"Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions (Paperback) 9780521499750","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKnowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection of essays offers a historical and cross-cultural examination of medical knowledge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDon Bates (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521499750, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 2 November 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 2 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.621 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...the book encloses rich lodes of scholarship which the explorer can mine with profit, receiving not only new information but flashes of new insight, according to his or her own background.\"    Lester S. King, Journal of the History of Medicine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHowever 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Scholarly ways of knowing: an introduction Don Bates\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Scholarly Medicine in the West: 2. Epistemological arguments in early Greek medicine in comparativist perspective G. E. R. Lloyd\u003cbr\u003e 3. Autopsia, historia and what women know: the authority of women in Hippocratic gynaecology Lesley Dean-Jones\u003cbr\u003e 4. The growth of medical empiricism Robert James Hankinson\u003cbr\u003e 5. Scholarship and social context: a medical case from the eleventh-century Near East Lawrence I. Conrad\u003cbr\u003e 6. The experience of the book: manuscripts, texts, and the role of epistemology in early medieval medicine Faith Wallis\u003cbr\u003e 7. Artifex factivus sanitatis: health and medical care in medieval Latin Galenism Luis García-Ballester\u003cbr\u003e 8. Epistemology and learned medicine in early modern England Andrew Wear\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Chinese Traditional Medicine: 9. Text and experience in classical Chinese medicine Nathan Sivin\u003cbr\u003e 10. Visual knowledge in classical Chinese medicine Shigehisa Kuriyama\u003cbr\u003e 11. A deathly disorder: understanding women's health in late imperial China Francesca Bray\u003cbr\u003e 12. Re-writing traditional medicine in post-Maoist China Judith Farquhar\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Ayurvedic Medicine: 13. Writing the body and ruling the land: Western reflections on Chinese and Indian medicine Margaret Trawick\u003cbr\u003e 14. The scholar, the wise man, and universals: three aspects of Ayurvedic medicine Francis Zimmerman\u003cbr\u003e 15. The epistemological carnival: meditations on disciplinary intentionality and Ayurveda Lawrence Cohen\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Commentaries: 16. Commentary Amos Funkenstein\u003cbr\u003e 17. Commentary Allan Young\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019722445080,"sku":"9780521499750","price":38.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521499750i_5277dcc1-17d4-4289-9203-b84027482c28.jpg?v=1691383171","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/knowledge-and-the-scholarly-medical-traditions-paperback-9780521499750","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}