Antiquarianism, Language, and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian, 12)

Based on several research seminars, the authors in this volume provide fresh perspectives of the intellectual and cultural history of East Asian medicine, 1550-1800. They use new sources, make new connections, and re-examine old assumptions, thereby interrogating whether and why European medical modernity is an appropriate standard for delineating the modern fate of East Asia's medical classics. The unique importance of early modern Europe in the history of modern medicine should not be used to gloss over the equally unique and thus different developments in East Asia. Each paper offers an important contribution to understanding the dynamics of East Asian medicine, namely, the relationship between medical texts, medical practice, and practitioner identity. Furthermore, the essays in this volume are especially valuable for directing our attention to the movement of medical texts between different polities and cultures of early modern East Asia, especially China and Japan. Of particular interest are the interactions, similarities, and differences between medical thinkers across East Asia. Contributors include: Susan Burns, Benjamin A. Elman, Asaf Goldschmidt, Angela KC Leung, Federico Marcon, MAYANAGI Makoto, Fabien Simonis, Daniel Trambaiolo, and Mathias Vigouroux. Contents 5 Contributors 6 Chapter 1 9 Rethinking the Sino-Japanese Medical Classics: Antiquarianism, Languages, and Medical Philology 9 Benjamin A. Elman 9 Chapter 2 27 Reasoning with Cases: The Transmission of Clinical Medical Knowledge in Twelfth-Century Song China 27 Asaf Goldschmidt 27 Chapter 3 60 Illness, Texts, and “Schools” in Danxi Medicine: 60 A New Look at Chinese Medical History from 1320 to 1800 60 Fabien Simonis 60 Chapter 4 89 Ancient Texts and New Medical Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Japan 89 Daniel Trambaiolo 89 Chapter 5 113 The Reception of the Circulation Channels Theory in Japan (1500–1800) 113 Mathias Vigouroux 113 Chapter 6 141 A Village Doctor and the Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders (Shanghan lun 傷寒論): Medical Theory / Medical Practice in Late Tokugawa Japan 141 Susan L. Burns 141 Chapter 7 156 Honzōgaku after Seibutsugaku: Traditional Pharmacology as Antiquarianism after the Institutionalization of Modern Biology in Early Meiji Japan 156 Federico Marcon 156 Chapter 8 171 Japanese Medical Texts in Chinese on Kakké in the Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods 171 Angela Ki Che Leung 171 Chapter 9 194 Yang Shoujing and the Kojima Family: Collection and Publication of Medical Classics 194 Mayanagi Makoto, with Takashi Miura and Mathias Vigouroux 194 Index 223 This volume rethinks the role of the Sino-Japanese medical classics during the early modern period in light of antiquarianism, languages, and medical philology. Philology in particular allows the authors to address the changing meaning of the same term, which often reflected well-known metaphors in the source language that were transposed to the target language. Each essay touches on the reliability of received medical texts and their modern fate