Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China by Andrew Schonebaum

Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

Modern Language Initiative Books

Andrew Schonebaum

296 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction health history literary medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fic...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...