Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology by Unschuld, Paul U.

Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520035430)

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Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology by Unschuld, Paul U.

Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology

$52.95
Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology by Unschuld, Paul U.

Medical Ethics in Imperial China: A Study in Historical Anthropology

$52.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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.

Author: Paul U. Unschuld
ISBN-10: 0520035437
ISBN-13: 9780520035430
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/20/1979
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
By Paul U. Unschuld
By Paul U. Unschuld
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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).

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