Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts

by Ruth Yun-Ju Chen

How early print culture reshaped strategies for presenting medical knowledge

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029575138X
• ISBN13: 9780295751382
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher