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dc.contributor.advisorElman, Benjaminen_US
dc.contributor.authorTrambaiolo, Daniel Marcoen_US
dc.contributor.otherHistory of Science Departmenten_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-15T15:04:50Z-
dc.date.available2014-01-15T15:04:50Z-
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qs03d-
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the history of medical knowledge in Tokugawa Japan through a study of the relationships between medical texts, social institutions and clinical practices. It situates the history of Japanese medicine during this period within its regional and global contexts, analysing Japanese doctors' engagement with ideas and practices drawn from medical cultures in China, Korea, and Europe and showing how these ideas and practices became integrated into the medical cultures of Japan itself. Part One focuses on the written representations of medical knowledge. From the seventeenth century onwards, the medical literature available within Japan came to include more widely accessible texts published in Japanese (kana) as well as texts in classical Chinese (kanbun), but classical Chinese writings remained authoritative. The close philological study of classical Chinese texts became a central problem for practitioners of "Ancient Formulas" medicine, and philological forms of evidential argument provided a model for new ways of using the empirical evidence of medical practice. Part Two focuses on the different types of personal interaction involved in the creation and dissemination of medical knowledge. Records of encounters between Japanese and Korean doctors in the context of diplomatic embassies during the eighteenth century illustrate the benefits and the shortcomings of cross- cultural interaction, while the history of the Ikeda lineage of smallpox doctors shows how the personal transmission of medical knowledge within Japan was linked to the desire of medical lineages to maintain the secrecy of the knowledge they possessed. Part Three focuses on the question of how novel medical practices were integrated into Japanese medical culture. New practices such as therapeutic vomiting, bloodletting, mercurial drugs for syphilis, and the cowpox vaccine were based on Japanese doctors' reading of Chinese as well as European sources; regardless of the geographical and cultural origins of new medical techniques, adoption of such techniques often required similar processes of adaptation to the prevailing practical and cultural conditions within Japan.en_US
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dc.publisherPrinceton, NJ : Princeton Universityen_US
dc.relation.isformatofThe Mudd Manuscript Library retains one bound copy of each dissertation. Search for these copies in the <a href=http://catalog.princeton.edu> library's main catalog </a>en_US
dc.subjectEarly Modern Japanen_US
dc.subjectEast Asian Medicineen_US
dc.subjectHistory of Medicineen_US
dc.subjectTokugawa Japanen_US
dc.subject.classificationHistory of scienceen_US
dc.subject.classificationAsian historyen_US
dc.titleWriting, Authority and Practice in Tokugawa Medicine, 1650-1850en_US
dc.typeAcademic dissertations (Ph.D.)en_US
pu.projectgrantnumber690-2143en_US
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