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Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts

By Ruth Yun-Ju Chen
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By Ruth Yun-Ju Chen
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How early print culture reshaped strategies for presenting medical knowledge

Why and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in China? This question is at the heart of Good Formulas, the first book-length study of the use of empirical evidence in Chinese medicine between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. The rise of this new approach to substantiating knowledge, which had appeared only sporadically in earlier medical literature, ...

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