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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| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.