TY - BOOK AU - Chen,Yunru TI - Good formulas: empirical evidence in mid-imperial Chinese medical texts SN - 9780295751405 AV - R601 .C442 2023eb U1 - 610.951 22 PY - 2023///] CY - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press KW - Medicine, Chinese KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Medical literature KW - China KW - Medicine, Chinese Traditional KW - M�edecine chinoise KW - HISTORY / Asia / China KW - bisacsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; New criteria for "good" medical formulas -- Textual claims and local investigations -- Demonstration of medical virtuosity -- The search for therapies in the far south N2 - "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, provides a window into transformations in the construction of textual authority in mid-imperial China. Focusing on medical genres and working extensively with notebooks (biji), Ruth Yun-Ju Chen shows that employing empirical evidence became prominent in conjunction with a publishing boom that enabled wider availability of medical texts and treatises. To convince a more socioculturally diverse readership to believe their claims and to win intertextual debates with contemporaneous authors, many Song medical authors turned to empirical methodology. Revealing a correlation between publishing cultures and changes in persuasion strategies in medical genres, Good Formulas offers new insights into the histories of medicine, knowledge production, and publishing in China. It also provides rich examples for scholars interested in the development of empirical evidence in the premodern world"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3626590 ER -