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Looking at it from Asia : the processes that shaped the sources of history of science
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ISBN: 9789048136759 9789048136766 9789048136810 9789400732490 Year: 2010 Volume: 265 Publisher: Dordrecht New York Springer

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The idea of this volume took shape within a group of scholars working on the history of science in Asia. Despite the great differences in time, locations and disciplines between our respective fields of research, we all faced similar situations: among the huge mass of written documents available to historians and that were eventually taken as sources in the historiography of science, some had been well studied while others had been dismissed or ignored. This observation will seem obvious to historians, whose daily work consists in shaping corpuses to raise new questions. The diagnosis has long been established that such selections related to the historians' agenda and thereby reflected the ways in which historiography somehow belonged to its time. Yet, it appeared to us that this diagnosis was insufficient and that the selective consideration of source material was also at least partly related to mechanisms of selection that occurred upstream from the historian's classical work of shaping a corpus. Therefore, we came to the idea that, in order to write, or to rewrite, chapters in the history of science, historians may benefit from relying on a critical analysis of the factors that, along history, shaped the documents that have become their sources or the collections from which they constitute their corpuses. It is to the development of such a branch of critical analysis in the history of science, to its methods and to its benefits to be illustrated in carefully chosen case studies , that we suggest to devote a collective research and a book. We want to inquire into how the corpuses we form incorporate long sequences of selections and reorganizations that took place in history and that must be brought to light if we do not want various types of actors of the past to carve their choices and conceptions into our questions and conclusions.


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Looking at it from Asia : the processes that shaped the sources of history of science
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ISBN: 904813675X 9786612927515 9048136768 1282927515 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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The idea of this volume took shape within a group of scholars working on the history of science in Asia. Despite the great differences in time, locations and disciplines between our respective fields of research, we all faced similar situations: among the huge mass of written documents available to historians and that were eventually taken as sources in the historiography of science, some had been well studied while others had been dismissed or ignored. This observation will seem obvious to historians, whose daily work consists in shaping corpuses to raise new questions. The diagnosis has long been established that such selections related to the historians’ agenda and thereby reflected the ways in which historiography somehow belonged to its time. Yet, it appeared to us that this diagnosis was insufficient and that the selective consideration of source material was also at least partly related to mechanisms of selection that occurred upstream from the historian’s classical work of shaping a corpus. Therefore, we came to the idea that, in order to write, or to rewrite, chapters in the history of science, historians may benefit from relying on a critical analysis of the factors that, along history, shaped the documents that have become their sources or the collections from which they constitute their corpuses. It is to the development of such a branch of critical analysis in the history of science, to its methods and to its benefits —to be illustrated in carefully chosen case studies—, that we suggest to devote a collective research and a book. We want to inquire into how the corpuses we form incorporate long sequences of selections and reorganizations that took place in history and that must be brought to light if we do not want various types of actors of the past to carve their choices and conceptions into our questions and conclusions.


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The idea of this volume took shape within a group of scholars working on the history of science in Asia. Despite the great differences in time, locations and disciplines between our respective fields of research, we all faced similar situations: among the huge mass of written documents available to historians and that were eventually taken as sources in the historiography of science, some had been well studied while others had been dismissed or ignored. This observation will seem obvious to historians, whose daily work consists in shaping corpuses to raise new questions. The diagnosis has long been established that such selections related to the historians’ agenda and thereby reflected the ways in which historiography somehow belonged to its time. Yet, it appeared to us that this diagnosis was insufficient and that the selective consideration of source material was also at least partly related to mechanisms of selection that occurred upstream from the historian’s classical work of shaping a corpus. Therefore, we came to the idea that, in order to write, or to rewrite, chapters in the history of science, historians may benefit from relying on a critical analysis of the factors that, along history, shaped the documents that have become their sources or the collections from which they constitute their corpuses. It is to the development of such a branch of critical analysis in the history of science, to its methods and to its benefits —to be illustrated in carefully chosen case studies—, that we suggest to devote a collective research and a book. We want to inquire into how the corpuses we form incorporate long sequences of selections and reorganizations that took place in history and that must be brought to light if we do not want various types of actors of the past to carve their choices and conceptions into our questions and conclusions.


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Pieces and Parts in Scientific Texts
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ISBN: 3319784668 3319784676 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences of such textual divisions. How can historians and philosophers of science approach this diversity, and what is at stake in dealing with it? The book addresses these questions, adopting a specific approach do to so. In order to shed light on the diversity of organizational patterns and rhetorical strategies in scientific texts, and to question the rationale behind the choices made to present such texts in one particular way, it focuses on the issue of text segmentation, offering answers to questions such as: Why was the meaning of segmenting texts into paragraphs, chapters, sections and clusters? Was segmentation used to delimit self-contained units, or to mark breaks in the physical appearance of a text in order to aid reading and memorizing, or to cope with the constraints of the material supports? How, in these different settings and in different texts, were pieces and parts made visible?


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Pieces and Parts in Scientific Texts
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ISBN: 9783319784670 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing

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This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences of such textual divisions. How can historians and philosophers of science approach this diversity, and what is at stake in dealing with it? The book addresses these questions, adopting a specific approach do to so. In order to shed light on the diversity of organizational patterns and rhetorical strategies in scientific texts, and to question the rationale behind the choices made to present such texts in one particular way, it focuses on the issue of text segmentation, offering answers to questions such as: Why was the meaning of segmenting texts into paragraphs, chapters, sections and clusters? Was segmentation used to delimit self-contained units, or to mark breaks in the physical appearance of a text in order to aid reading and memorizing, or to cope with the constraints of the material supports? How, in these different settings and in different texts, were pieces and parts made visible?


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Qu'était-ce qu'écrire une encyclopédie en Chine ?
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ISBN: 9782842921989 Year: 2007 Publisher: Saint-Denis Presses universitaires de Vincennes

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La santé en Chine du Sud (1898-1928)
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ISBN: 2271060109 9782271060105 2271127963 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : CNRS Éditions,

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En Chine du Sud, les provinces du Yunnan, du Guangxi et du Guangdong sont depuis toujours entachées d’une mauvaise réputation sanitaire. À la fin du XIXe siècle, l’arrivée de médecins occidentaux, pasteuriens convaincus, va modifier notre connaissance de la santé en Chine. Ces praticiens, munis de microscopes et capables d’utiliser dans leur diagnostic une sémiologie nouvelle, identifient quelques pathologies et de grandes épidémies. Mais en essayant de traiter ou d’hospitaliser la population locale, ils modifient également les pratiques de santé. Au contact de ces médecins, qui restent dépourvus d’autorité officielle à l’égard de la population chinoise, le gouvernement des Qing met sur pied une police sanitaire, première autorité publique moderne à se voir confiée la santé de la nation chinoise. Là où les médecins occidentaux s’activent à soigner et à former la population, des notables et des riches marchands chinois établissent des structures charitables concurrentes qui diffusent notions et techniques occidentales de santé. Parallèlement, pour lutter contre l’influence étrangère, les médecins traditionnels s’efforcent d’unifier leurs savoirs et de s’organiser dans le cadre d’une véritable profession. Sous la triple impulsion des médecins occidentaux, de l’Etat et des élites locales, les pratiques individuelles de santé évoluent. Vers la fin des années 1920, et dans les villes ouvertes à l’étranger, si la médecine traditionnelle, la religion et la magie persistent, le recours à la médecine occidentale s’est élargi à toutes les classes de la population pour des pathologies de plus en plus variées. Grâce à l’exploitation systématique des archives sanitaires coloniales françaises, combinée à celle des « chroniques locales » chinoises rédigées aux XIXe et XXe siècles, l’auteur montre comment la multiplicité des références et des pratiques médicales a favorisé l’adoption de modèles thérapeutiques étrangers.


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Penser les épidémies depuis la Chine, le Japon et la Corée
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ISBN: 9782842924119 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris Presses universitaires de Vincennes

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Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America
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ISBN: 303019082X 3030190811 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the body is perceived; the second focuses on the perceptions that a particular natural environment is good or bad for human health and examines the reasons behind such characterizations ; the third examines the promotion, in history, of specific practices to take advantage of the health benefits, or avoid the harm, caused by certain environments and also efforts made to change environments supposed to be harmful to human health. The feeling and/or the observation that the natural environment can have effects on human health have been, and are still commonly shared throughout the world. This led us to raise the issue of the links observed and believed to exist between human beings and the natural environment in a broad chronological and geographical framework. In this investigation, we bring the reader from ancient and late imperial China to the medieval Arab world up to medieval, modern, and contemporary Europe. This book does not examine these relationships through the prism of the knowledge of our modern contemporary European experience, which, still too often, leads to the feeling of totally different worlds. Rather, it questions protagonists who, in different times and in different places, have reflected, on their own terms, on the links between environment and health and tries to obtain a better understanding of why these links took the form they did in these precise contexts. This book targets an academic readership as well as an “informed audience”, for whom present issues of environment and health can be nourished by the reflections of the past.


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Making sense of health, disease, and the environment in cross-cultural history : the Arabic-Islamic world, China, Europe and North America
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ISBN: 9783030190811 9783030190828 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham Springer

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