In late imperial China, debates over how virtuosity in medical practice might be cultivated unfolded within a world that connected physicians to scholars, poets, calligraphers, Buddhist monks, Daoist life-cultivation experts and military strategists. This book traces these debates, showing how medicine was imagined as akin to poetry, how clinical insight was shaped through meditative bodily practices and how practitioners pursued empirical investigation. At the same time, medicine and the body became vital conceptual resources for intellectuals seeking to address broader social and philosophical questions
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Searching for the Dao of Medicine
Landscapes of Thoughtful Practice in Late Imperial China
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Searching for the Dao of Medicine
Landscapes of Thoughtful Practice in Late Imperial China
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Table of contents
- Searching for the Dao of Medicine
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of Historical Figures
- Timeline
- Introduction
- PART I. The Syncretic Dao of Medicine and Medicine in the Age of Wang Yangming
- Chapter 1. Before Medicine as Dao
- Chapter 2. Medicine Turns on Discernment
- Chapter 3. Embodying Good Knowing
- Chapter 4. Thinking with Medicine in the Age of Wang Yangming
- PART II. The Devotional Dao of Medicine
- Chapter 5. Following in Zhu Xi’s Footsteps
- Chapter 6. Revealing Zhongjing’s Intentions
- Chapter 7. Order and Orthodoxy
- PART III. The Poetic Dao of Medicine
- Chapter 8. Healing the World with Words
- Chapter 9. Responding to the Affairs of One’s Time
- Chapter 10. The Poet as Physician and the Physician as Poet
- Chapter 11. On the Boundaries of the Poetic Dao of Medicine
- PART IV. The Evidential Dao of Medicine
- Chapter 12. Medicine as Warfare
- Chapter 13. Antiquity Is Everywhere
- Chapter 14. Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- Blank Page
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