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This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology. Philology in particular allows the authors to address the changing meaning of the same term, which often reflected well-known metaphors in the source language that were transposed to the target language. Each essay touches on the reliability of received medical texts and their modern fate.

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"The Treatise on Cold Damage is precisely the sort of text for which a deeper understanding of the use of philological approaches in the study and practice of medicine promises the greatest increase in our understanding of East Asian medicine’s history. While the essays collected in this volume are all important and exciting in their own right, the new avenues of research that they highlight are equally exciting. I hope that this book will inspire more work in this highly productive field." - Stephen Boyanton, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.1 (2018)

Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 22/01/2015
      ISBN13: 9789004285446, 978-9004285446
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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics History of medicine

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology. Philology in particular allows the authors to address the changing meaning of the same term, which often reflected well-known metaphors in the source language that were transposed to the target language. Each essay touches on the reliability of received medical texts and their modern fate.

      Trade Review
      "The Treatise on Cold Damage is precisely the sort of text for which a deeper understanding of the use of philological approaches in the study and practice of medicine promises the greatest increase in our understanding of East Asian medicine’s history. While the essays collected in this volume are all important and exciting in their own right, the new avenues of research that they highlight are equally exciting. I hope that this book will inspire more work in this highly productive field." - Stephen Boyanton, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.1 (2018)

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