Novel Medicine : Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

Novel Medicine Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

"Printed novels, guides to daily life, and practical medical texts were relatively new in sixteenth-century China, but they quickly became popular and influential. Novel Medicine shows how fiction shaped and was shaped by medical discourse and how it popularized practical, vernacular kinds of k...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schonebaum, Andrew, 1975- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press 2016
2016.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Modern Language Initiative Books
Materias:
Medizin > Motiv
Chinesisch
Literatur
Qing Dynasty (China)
Popular culture.
Medicine in literature.
Medical literature.
Literature and society.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Healing in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Chinese fiction > Ming dynasty.
Chinese fiction.
Books and reading > Social aspects.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Medical Writing > history.
Reading > history
Medicine in Literature.
Knowledge, Sociology of > History.
Popular culture > China > History.
Books and reading > Social aspects > China > History.
Literature and society > China > History.
Medical literature > China > History.
Chinese fiction > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 > History and criticism.
Chinese fiction > Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 > History and criticism.
China.
Asian history
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beginning to read : some methods and background
  • Reading medically : novel illnesses, novel cures
  • Vernacular curiosities : medical entertainments and memory
  • Diseases of sex : medical and literary views of contagion and retribution
  • Diseases of Qing : medical and literary views of depletion
  • Contagious texts : inherited maladies and the invention of tuberculosis
  • Chinese character glossary.

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