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A Chinese physician : Wang Ji and the "Stone Mountain medical case histories"

Author: Joanna Grant
Publisher: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Series: Needham Research Institute series.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A Chinese Physician is the portrait of Wang Ji, a sixteenth-century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Three methodologies - loosely termed socioeconomic/biographic, textual analysis, and gender analysis - and a variety of sources, from hagiographical biographies to medical case histories, are used to tell three very different but complementary stories about what it was to practise medicine in  Read more...
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Named Person: Ji Wang; Ji Wang
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joanna Grant
ISBN: 0415297583 9780415297585
OCLC Number: 50745151
Description: xi, 209 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Wang Ji, medical culture and contemporary society --
2. The 'Stone Mountain medical case histories' --
3. Wang Ji's medical practice: a textual analysis of the 'Stone Mountain medical case histories' --
4. Gender, culture and medicine: a gender analysis of the 'Stone Mountain medical case histories'
Series Title: Needham Research Institute series.
Responsibility: Joanna Grant.
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A Chinese Physician is the portrait of Wang Ji, a sixteenth-century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Three methodologies - loosely termed socioeconomic/biographic, textual analysis, and gender analysis - and a variety of sources, from hagiographical biographies to medical case histories, are used to tell three very different but complementary stories about what it was to practise medicine in sixteenth-century China.

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