Tradition Reinvented : The Reimagination of Kanpo Medicine in Twentieth Century Japan
出版項
2020
說明
1 online resource (234 pages)
文字
text
無媒介
computer
成冊
online resource
附註
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-10, Section: B
Advisor: Greene, J. M
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2020
Includes bibliographical references
This dissertation examines the ideological development of classical Japanese medical (later known as kanpo) philosophy and practice between the Edo period (1603-1868) and the mid-twentieth century. During this time, kanpo evolved from a system based in classical Chinese medical theories and practices into one heavily reliant on Western conceptions of disease and scientific practices, with seemingly ever less connections to classical practice. I argue that this shift occurred through a series of progressive intellectual reinventions of the kanpo paradigm beginning in the Edo period. Ultimately, the scientific rationalization of the kanpo paradigm and the development of a mass manufacturing process for kanpo medicinal extracts in the twentieth century undergirded the renewal of kanpo's social relevance in Japan while simultaneously stripping its connections with classical medical practices. Though marketed as "traditional", much of contemporary kanpo is a thoroughly "modern" creation, a reinvented tradition
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2021
