Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China - A Translation of Xu Shuwei's Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders

• Main Author: Goldschmidt, Asaf (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 54
• Subjects: Medicine-History.; History.; Medicine, Chinese.; History of Medicine.; History of Science.; Traditional Chinese Medicine.

This book is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei's (1080-1154) collection of 90 medical case records - Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun 傷寒九十論) - which was the first such collection in China. The translation reveals patterns of social as well as medical history....

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Part I. Note on the Translation
• Introduction
• Part II: Translation of cases. Case #1 to Case #90.