Medical Ethics in Imperial China
Medical Ethics in Imperial China

Author: Paul Ulrich Unschuld

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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The ethics of Chinese physicians were formulated during the Confucian era and advocated the interests of the general public. Medical resources in China were distributed to shamans (up to this century), Buddhist monks, Taoist hermits, Confucian scholars, itinerant and established physicians, laymen, midwives, and many others. Conflict over distribution of those resources affected everyone. Independently practicing physicians acquired more and more control. Ethical debates were used to centralize resources among physicians. Prognosis has become increasingly significant as a means of protection and reputation. A formulated ethics from the elite group of physicians must not only subject itself to the values dominating society but create values in the advanced medical regions; e.g., allocation of resources to preserve life.

Medical Ethics in Imperial China
Medical Ethics in Imperial China

Author: Paul Ulrich Unschuld

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780520035430

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The ethics of Chinese physicians were formulated during the Confucian era and advocated the interests of the general public. Medical resources in China were distributed to shamans (up to this century), Buddhist monks, Taoist hermits, Confucian scholars, itinerant and established physicians, laymen, midwives, and many others. Conflict over distribution of those resources affected everyone. Independently practicing physicians acquired more and more control. Ethical debates were used to centralize resources among physicians. Prognosis has become increasingly significant as a means of protection and reputation. A formulated ethics from the elite group of physicians must not only subject itself to the values dominating society but create values in the advanced medical regions; e.g., allocation of resources to preserve life.

Medicine for Women in Imperial China
Medicine for Women in Imperial China

Author: Angela Ki Che Leung

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9047409922

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This book is the first scholarly work in English on medicine for women in pre-Song China. The essays deal with key issues in early Chinese gynecology and obstetrics, and how they were formulated before the Song when medicine for women reached maturity. The reader will find that medical questions in early China also reflected religious and social issues. The authors, based in North America and East Asia, describe and analyze women’s bodies, illnesses, and childbirth experiences according to a variety of archaeological materials and historical texts. The essays reveal a rich and complex picture of early views on the female medical and social body that have wide implications for other institutions of the period, and on medicine and women in the later imperial era.

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine
Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

Author: Marta Hanson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1136816429

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"This book is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the seventeenth-century collapse of the Ming dynasty, the ancient notion of wenbing Warm diseases continued to play a role even in the response of Traditional Chinese Medicine to the outbreak of SARS in 2002-3. By following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times this book approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. It explores the possibility of replacing older narratives that stress progress and linear development with accounts that pay attention to geographic, intellectual, and cultural diversity. By doing so it integrates the history of Chinese medicine into broader historical studies in a way that has not so far been attempted, and addresses the concerns of a readership much wider than that of Chinese medicine specialists"--Provided by publisher.

Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities
Japan's Wartime Medical Atrocities

Author: Jing Bao Nie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-03

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1136952594

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Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these “factories of death,” including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and experiments on human beings, mostly Chinese nationals. However, as a result of complex historical factors including an American cover-up of the atrocities, Japanese denials, and inadequate responses from successive Chinese governments, justice has never been fully served. This volume brings together the contributions of a group of scholars from different countries and various academic disciplines. It examines Japan’s wartime medical atrocities and their postwar aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into perennial issues of historical memory, science, politics, society and ethics elicited by these rebarbative events. The volume’s central ethical claim is that the failure to bring justice to bear on the systematic abuse of medical research by Japanese military medical personnel more than six decades ago has had a profoundly retarding influence on the development and practice of medical and social ethics in all of East Asia. The book also includes an extensive annotated bibliography selected from relevant publications in Japanese, Chinese and English.

Healing Virtue-Power
Healing Virtue-Power

Author: Sabine Wilms

Publisher:

Published: 2022-11-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781732157194

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Healing Virtue-Power: Medical Ethics and the Doctor's Dao is a conversation across time and space, between the seventh-century hermit S?n S?mi?o and the contemporary translator Sabine Wilms, to address two sets of questions at the heart of the most ancient and precious texts in Chinese medicine:How do we find the DÀO OF MEDICINE? How do we walk the PATH OF THE HEALER?How do we cultivate DÉ "VIRTUE-POWER"? How do we learn and teach, recognize and transmit, replenish and nurture our HEALING SUPERPOWER?To explore these questions and potential answers from the 7th-century Chinese and modern Western perspective, this book includes:? Literal, line-by-line translations of S?n S?mi?o's two essays "On the Professional Practice of the Great Doctor" and "On the Sublime Sincerityof the Great Doctor," which constitute the first two chapters of his Bèijí qi?nj?n yàof?ng from 652 CE, in Dr. Wilms' trademark lucid style andelegant layout with the original Chinese text plus Pinyin transcription on the opposite page.? 102 pages of detailed notes and discussions that provide historical, religious, philosophical, and medical context for S?n S?mi?o's writings.? A 30-page preface by Dr. Wilms on "Honoring Whose Whose Shoulders We Stand On" and a 36-page conclusion by Dr. Wilms on "Acting by Non-Action: Thee Last Word?"? Forewords by Michael Max and Z'ev Rosenberg.