Author : Gregory K. Clancey
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789971692599
A volume of selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA). It addresses diverse topics in astronomy, traditional Chinese medicine, the history of mathematics, and Western science in East Asia.
Author : Alan Kam Leung Chan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2002-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 981448864X
Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations. It is the third in a series of books growing out of the tri-annual International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, the largest and most prestigious gathering of scholars in the field. The current volume broadens the field's traditional focus on China to include path-breaking work on Vietnam, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and even the transmission of Asian science and technology to Europe and the United States. Topics covered include: traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino medicines; Chinese astronomy; Japanese earthquakes; science and technology policy; architecture; the digital revolution; and much else.
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Medicine
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Author : Yung Sik Kim
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788952100160
Author : David G. Wittner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317444361
Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different from other Asian countries and thus justify its imperialist activities, but also to position itself within the civilized and enlightened world with the advantages of modern science, technologies, and medicine. This book explores the ways in which scientists, engineers and physicians worked directly and indirectly to support the creation of a new Japanese empire, focussing on the eve of World War I and linking their efforts to later post-war developments. By claiming status as a modern, internationally-engaged country, the Japanese government was faced with having to control pathogens that might otherwise not have threatened the nation. Through the use of traditional and innovative techniques, this volume shows how the government was able to fulfil the state’s responsibility to protect society to varying degrees. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Morris Low
Publisher :
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780226000909
Devoted to the history of non-Western science, technology, and medicine, this path-breaking volume goes beyond the legacy of the late historian of Chinese science, Joseph Needham, by covering an unprecedented range of countries and by adopting new approaches. The seventeen chapters address topics in China, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. However, the contributors do not view the histories of these countries in isolation. Many adopt a cross-cultural approach by tracing interaction with other Asian countries and the West. The volume begins with four chapters that provide a "big picture" overview of science and civilization in Asia. These are followed by more focused essays, which deal with aspects of science, technology, and medicine in specific countries. Specialist and non-specialist readers alike will leave this volume with a strong sense of the political and economic imperatives behind knowledge systems in Eastern Asia, their cultural contexts, and how they have coexisted along with those in the West.
Author : Catherine Jami
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2015
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Author : Volker Scheid
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0702048364
Traditional East Asian healthcare systems have moved rapidly from the fringes of healthcare systems in the West towards the centre over the past 50 years. This change of status for traditional medicines presents their practitioners with both opportunities and challenges as the focus shifts from one of opposition towards one of integration into biomedically dominated healthcare systems. Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare examines the opportunities and challenges of integrating East Asian medicine into Western healthcare systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. Volker Scheid and Hugh MacPherson bring together contributions from acknowledged experts from a number of different disciplines - including clinical researchers, Chinese Medicine practitioners, historians, medical anthropologists, experts in the social studies of science, technology and medicine - to examine and debate the impact of the evidence-based medicine movement on the ongoing modernization of East Asian medicines. The book considers the following questions: •What are the values, goals and ethics implicit within traditional East Asian medical practices? • What claims to effectiveness and safety are made by East Asian medical practices? •What is at stake in subjecting these medical practices to biomedical models of evaluation? • What constitutes best practice? How is it to be defined and measured? • What are the ideologies and politics behind the process of integration of East Asian medical practices into modern health care systems? • What can we learn from a variety of models of integration into contemporary healthcare?
Author : Universität Tübingen, Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 2428 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2008-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 140204559X
Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.
