Sensing as Knowing: Medicines, the Senses, and Practical Expertise in Late Imperial China

The development of the medicinal trade and markets in late imperial China increased anxiety among scholarly physicians about the authenticity of medicines. Even though the market was typically depicted by scholarly physicians as a place full of tricks and deceptions, it was a repertoire where practi...

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Main Author: Xiaomeng LIU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Health/LWW 2023-03-01
Series:Chinese Medicine and Culture
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/10.1097/MC9.0000000000000044