The Menstruating Womb: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Body and Gender in Hŏ Chun's Precious Mirror of Eastern Medicine (1613) [0.03%]
《东医宝鉴》中的妇女医学：关于身体与性别之文化建构的跨文化研究
Yi-Li Wu
Yi-Li Wu
This paper analyses body and gender in East Asian medicine through a case study of Hŏ Chun's Precious Mirror of Eastern Medicine (Tongŭi pogam , first ed. 1613). While Hŏ Chun's Chinese sources classified menstrual ailments as a disease ...
Collectors, Producers, and Circulators of Tibetan and Chinese Medicines in Sichuan Province [0.03%]
四川的藏药和中药收藏者、生产者及流通者
Lena Springer
Lena Springer
The act of prescribing pharmaceutical drugs to patients is normally the site of judgements about the drug's efficacy and safety. The success of treatments and the licences for commodities depend on the biochemical identity of the drugs and ...
The Administration of Tibetan Precious Pills: Efficacy in Historical and Ritual Contexts [0.03%]
藏药珍宝丸的使用及其历史与仪式背景下的疗效研究
Olaf Czaja
Olaf Czaja
Precious pills represent a special kind of Tibetan drug that once was, and still is, highly sought after by Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian patients. Such pills are generally taken as a potent prophylactic remedy, and can be used to cure va...
Contested Issues of Efficacy and Safety between Transnational Formulation Regimes of Tibetan Medicines in China and Europe [0.03%]
中西藏药跨国制剂体系间的有效性与安全性争议问题
Mona Schrempf
Mona Schrempf
Tibetan medicines are key material objects for medical treatment and have become part of a global trend of 'pharmaceuticalisation', playing increasingly important political and socio-economic roles in an 'alternative modernity'. As I argue ...
The Dangers of 'Warming and Replenishing' (wenbu ) during the Ming to Qing Epistemic Transition [0.03%]
明至清知识转型期的"温补"之弊
Leslie de Vries
Leslie de Vries
Through a case study of Zhao Xianke's One Principle through Medicine (Yiguan ) (1617?) and Xu Dachun's (1693-1771) denouncements of this text, my article zooms in on divergent discourses on the safety and efficacy of medicinal substances an...
Transmitting Chinese Medicine: Changing Perceptions of Body, Pathology, and Treatment in Late Imperial China [0.03%]
传输中的医学：晚期帝制中国身体、病理和治疗观念的变化
Volker Scheid
Volker Scheid
Historians of Chinese medicine acknowledge the plurality of Chinese medicine along both synchronic and diachronic dimensions. Yet, there remains a tendency to think of tradition as being defined by some unchanging features. The Chinese medi...
Soyoung Suh
Soyoung Suh
This article examines how Korean physicians of traditional medicine have utilized Zhang Ji's (150-219 CE) Shanghanlun (Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders, just Treatise hereafter) from the 17th century to the early twentieth century. As one ...
The Adaptation of the Treatise on Cold Damage in Eighteenth-century Japan: Text, Society, and Readers [0.03%]
论日本十八世纪的伤寒杂病论改编：文本、社会和读者
Keiko Daidoji
Keiko Daidoji
This paper examines how the Shanghanlun, translated as the Treatise on Cold Damage (i.e., the Treatise), one of the most revered Chinese medical texts of the Han dynasty, was used in Japanese traditional medicine (Kanpō ), and particularly...
Mingji Cuomu
Mingji Cuomu
Classical Tibetan medicine is closely related to Buddhist philosophy. This article describes how the study and meaning of sexual differentiation in Tibetan medicine is deeply rooted in Buddhist texts and philosophy. The article pays particu...