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  • Traditional Chinese Knowledge before the Japanese Discovery of Western Science in Gabor Lukacs’ Kaitai Shinsho & Geka Sōden

    Author(s):
    Grégoire Espesset (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    History, Medical Humanities, Science Studies and the History of Science
    Subject(s):
    Medicine--Philosophy, Medicine, History, Middle Ages, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Science, Manuscripts, China, Japan
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    surgery, physiology, anatomy, Philosophy and medicine, History of medicine, Medieval and early modern medicine, History of science, Manuscript studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/hj04-n898
    Abstract:
    Gabor Lukacs' 2008 book on “Kaitai Shinsho: The Single Most Famous Japanese Book of Medicine & Geka Sōden: An Early Very Important Manuscript on Surgery” is a bibliographical contribution to the comparative history of the introduction of Western science in East Asia. It focuses on two illustrated manuals of anatomy and surgery in Japanese, adapted from European medical sources in Dutch. This review article first surveys the organisation and contents of the book, then tackles consistency, typesetting and copyediting issues, then moves on to problems with transcriptions and translations of Chinese and Sino-Japanese materials, and finally discusses Lukacs' approach to Chinese premodern knowledge. Richly illustrated yet mainly descriptive, pervaded with amateurish enthusiasm, ideological biases and value judgments, the book illustrates the persistence of ‘Orientalism’ and ‘exoticism’ in academic publications.
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    Published as:
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    Publisher:
    International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
    Pub. Date:
    2014
    Journal:
    East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
    Volume:
    40
    Page Range:
    113 - 128
    ISSN:
    1562-918X
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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