Medicine and society in late imperial China
Subtitle: a study of physicians in Suzhou, 1600-1850
By: Yüan-ling Chao.
Series: Asian thought and culture -- v. 61; Asian thought and culture -- v. 61.
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781433103810
Subjects: Medicine, Chinese -- China -- Suzhou Shi (Jiangsu Sheng) -- History; Confucianism; History, Modern 1601- -- China; Confucianism -- history -- China; Physician's Role -- history -- China; Sociology, Medical -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "Confucianization" of medicine : the idea of the ruyi (Confucian physician); title: State and medicine; title: Medical works, medical theories, and the practice of medicine; title: Suzhou physicians; title: Maintaining health in Suzhou; title: Practicing medicine in Suzhou : Ye Tianshi.