TY - BOOK ID - 4888420 TI - Novel medicine : healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China PY - 2016 SN - 9780295995182 PB - Seattle : University of Washington Press, DB - UniCat KW - Chinese fiction KW - Healing in literature KW - Medicine in literature. KW - Diseases in literature. KW - Medical literature KW - Literature and society KW - Books and reading KW - Popular culture KW - Knowledge, Sociology of KW - Roman chinois KW - Guérison dans la littérature KW - Médecine dans la littérature KW - Maladies dans la littérature KW - Médecine KW - Littérature et société KW - Livres et lecture KW - Culture populaire KW - Sociologie de la connaissance KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Documentation KW - Histoire KW - Aspect social KW - Medicine in literature KW - Diseases in literature KW - Medicine in Literature KW - Medicine, Chinese Traditional KW - Medical Writing KW - History, Early Modern 1451-1600 KW - History, Modern 1601 KW - -History of Medicine, Modern KW - Medicine, Modern KW - Modern History (Medicine) KW - Modern Medicine KW - History, Modern KW - Modern History KW - 1601- History, Modern KW - History, Modern (Medicine) KW - Modern 1601- History KW - Early Modern History (Medicine) KW - Early Modern History of Medicine KW - Early Modern Medicine KW - History of Medicine, Early Modern KW - History, Early Modern KW - Medicine, Early Modern KW - Early Modern History KW - Early Modern Histories (Medicine) KW - Histories, Early Modern (Medicine) KW - History, Early Modern (Medicine) KW - History, Early Modern 1451 1600 KW - Modern Histories, Early (Medicine) KW - Modern History, Early KW - Modern History, Early (Medicine) KW - Modern Medicine, Early KW - Science in Literature KW - Literature, Medicine in KW - Literature, Science in KW - in Literature, Medicine KW - in Literature, Science KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) KW - Sociology of knowledge KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Choice of books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literature KW - Reading, Choice of KW - Reading and books KW - Reading habits KW - Reading public KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Medical care in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Social aspects&delete& KW - history KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation KW - China. KW - Mainland China KW - Inner Mongolia KW - Manchuria KW - People's Republic of China KW - Sinkiang KW - Guérison dans la littérature KW - Médecine dans la littérature KW - Maladies dans la littérature KW - Médecine KW - Littérature et société KW - -S16/0418 KW - S16/0419 KW - S21/0300 KW - S21/0500 KW - History of Medicine, Modern KW - Communication KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Public opinion KW - Sociology KW - Social epistemology KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Life sciences literature KW - Medicine KW - Reading KW - Reading interests KW - Reading promotion KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: Ming: studies, texts and translations KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: Qing: studies, texts and translations KW - China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general KW - China: Medicine, public health and food--Public health, hospitals, medical schools, etc KW - Medicine in Literature. KW - -History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4888420 AB - "Printed novels, guides to daily life, and practical medical texts were relatively new in sixteenth-century China, but they quickly became popular and influential. Novel Medicine shows how fiction shaped and was shaped by medical discourse and how it popularized practical, vernacular kinds of knowledge. A vibrant exchange among literary, commercial, and medical spheres resulted in a web of texts that produced distinct genealogies of romantic and sexual disease, iconographic lineages of heroic doctors, and medicalized attitudes toward reading. Novel Medicine interrogates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge. Conversely, it demonstrates how practical medical texts employed literary devices and figurative strategies to propagate information. Employing interdisciplinary strategies, it examines the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine as well as their representations of illnesses and healers. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts, as well as sources such as fiction commentary, criticism, medical manuscripts, newspapers, essays, print images, and biographies inform an understanding of the body in early modern China. These readings also provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus on the 'literati' aspects of the novel, showing that these texts were not merely read, but were used by a wide variety of readers and for a range of purposes. This inquiry into the intersections of kinds and sources of knowledge--fictional and real, elite and vernacular--illuminates the history of reading and daily life and challenges us to rethink the nature of Chinese literature"--Provided by publisher. ER -