Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions

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List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Scholarly ways of knowing: an introduction Don Bates
Part I. Scholarly Medicine in the West:
2. Epistemological arguments in early Greek medicine in comparativist perspective G. E. R. Lloyd
3. Autopsia, historia and what women know: the authority of women in Hippocratic gynaecology Lesley Dean-Jones
4. The growth of medical empiricism Robert James Hankinson
5. Scholarship and social context: a medical case from the eleventh-century Near East Lawrence I. Conrad
6. The experience of the book: manuscripts, texts, and the role of epistemology in early medieval medicine Faith Wallis
7. Artifex factivus sanitatis: health and medical care in medieval Latin Galenism Luis García-Ballester
8. Epistemology and learned medicine in early modern England Andrew Wear
Part II. Chinese Traditional Medicine:
9. Text and experience in classical Chinese medicine Nathan Sivin
10. Visual knowledge in classical Chinese medicine Shigehisa Kuriyama
11. A deathly disorder: understanding women's health in late imperial China Francesca Bray
12. Re-writing traditional medicine in post-Maoist China Judith Farquhar
Part III. Ayurvedic Medicine:
13. Writing the body and ruling the land: Western reflections on Chinese and Indian medicine Margaret Trawick
14. The scholar, the wise man, and universals: three aspects of Ayurvedic medicine Francis Zimmerman
15. The epistemological carnival: meditations on disciplinary intentionality and Ayurveda Lawrence Cohen
Part IV. Commentaries:
16. Commentary Amos Funkenstein
17. Commentary Allan Young
Index.

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