Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology

Unschuld, Paul U.

ISBN 10: 0520035437 / ISBN 13: 9780520035430

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1979

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Cloth in DJ; 141pp; A few short tears to DJ, DJ clean & bright, boards square & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First comprehensive history of explicitly medical ethics in pre-modern China, from about 500 BC through the 19th century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
• Publication Date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0520035437
• ISBN 13: 9780520035430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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Synopsis

This book, the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known Chinese medical literature. The inclusion in addition of writings possessing ethical implications makes possible cultural comparisons with the corresponding literatures in the West.

About the Author

Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin and is the author of Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text (UC Press, 2003).