An Ecumenical Medicine Yet To Come
Reflections on Needham on Medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3189947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wen-Hua Kuo (0009-0001-2374-5713, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 116-121 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/702897 |
| OpenAlex | W2923931790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
This essay provides an assessment of Joseph Needham’s account of Chinese medicine. Focusing on Needham’s thesis on the making of ecumenical science, it reviews the volume on medicine in Science and Civilisation in China and provides a close reading of Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa, the first scholarly book in English dedicated to this topic. Noting an increase in work on the history of medicine that has shifted away from Needham’s positivist approach, the essay calls for a revival of his eclecticism in situating Chinese medicine as a living tradition, arguing that scholarship drawing on science and technology studies can facilitate the reorientation of Needham’s historical project
China · Civilization · Eclecticism · Epistemology · History of medicine · History of science · Political science · Reading (process · Scholarship · Theology · Classics · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |