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The Catchy Epidemic: Theorization and its Limits in Han to Song Period Medicine (2015)

Tj Hinrichs (Author)

East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Issue: 41
Pages: 19-62

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/eastasiascietech.41.19

Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on "the History of Chinese Medicine"
Language: English

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Medicine East Asia, civilization and culture Disease and diseases Epidemics Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279) Han dynasty (China, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.)

Abstract This essay explores functional-configurational and ontological-contaminationist etiological distinctions and the social and political stakes behind them through writings on Warmth disorders/diseases and Warmth epidemics (wenbing 溫病, wenyi 溫/瘟疫) in the period from the Han to the Song dynasties. It shows that the functional-configurational and onto-logical-contaminationist frameworks often coexisted, competed, or alter-nated with each other, offering not only different ways of looking at the world, but authorizing different action in it. Examination of Northern Song (959-1126) campaigns to stop the practice, identified with “southerners,” of avoiding contact with and thereby neglecting the sick, and of Southern Song (1127-1279) controversies over contagion, reveals ideological bases for literati-officials’ preference and support for functional over ontological theories.

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