Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082483500X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Barbara Nostrand said A disappointing book. I originally discovered this book listed as a textbook in the syllabus of a course on medieval Japanese medicine taught by the author. It was puzzling that there were so many outside readings. So, I read reviews of the book published in Monumenta Nipponica and The Journal of Japanese Studies. Both reviews in these journals panned this book. The reviewers wrote that the book spends comparatively few of its pages on describing or explicating premodern Japanese m
Confluences of Medicine is the first book-length exploration in English of issues of medicine and society in premodern Japan. Both of these texts are landmarks: the former being the first work written in Japanese for a popular audience; the latter, the most extensive Japanese medical work prior to the seventeenth century.Confluences of Medicine brings to the fore the range of factorsnetworks of Buddhist priests, institutional support, availability of materials, relevance of overseas knowledge to local conditions of domestic strife, and serendipitythat influenced the Japanese acquisition
This book has placed the historiography of medieval Japanese medicine in an exciting vista of research.” American Historical Review (December 2012)“A thought-provoking and much-welcome volume. It can be recommended to graduate students and scholars of premodern Japan and the history of medicine and society in East Asia, particularly for its capacity to invoke a vision of medieval Japan within a larger, more dynamic historical context and to offer many directions for future studies.” Anna Andreeva, H-Net Reviews (August 2012)"Andrew Edmund Goble's book is the first English-language monograph on the
. Andrew Edmund Goble is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon