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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schonebaum, Andrew, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
Colección:A Robert B. Heilman Book
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.