Medicinal Formulas and Experiential Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Epistemic Exchange between China and Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7828370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Hanson (0000-0001-6190-7499, Johns Hopkins University), Gianna Pomata (0000-0003-4518-6139, Johns Hopkins University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| 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 | 10.1086/691411 |
| PMID | 29897693 |
| OpenAlex | W2595578481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 22 |
This essay deals with the medical recipe as an epistemic genre that played an important role in the cross-cultural transmission of knowledge. The article first compares the development of the recipe as a textual form in Chinese and European premodern medical cultures. It then focuses on the use of recipes in the transmission of Chinese pharmacology to Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century. The main sources examined are the Chinese medicinal formulas translated—presumably—by the Jesuit Michael Boym and published in Specimen Medicinae Sinicae (1682), a text that introduced Chinese pulse medicine to Europe. The article examines how the translator rendered the Chinese formulas into Latin for a European audience. Arguably, the translation was facilitated by the fact that the recipe as a distinct epistemic genre had developed, with strong parallels, in both Europe and China. Building on these parallels, the translator used the recipe as a shared textual format that would allow the transfer of knowledge between the two medical cultures
Ancient history · Art · China · Epistemology · Experiential learning · Linguistics · Literature · Parallels · Pedagogy · Recipe · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |