Physician-patient Relationship in Huizhou Medical Cases (1500-1800)
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Tu, Feng-En
Abstract
The aim of the thesis is to reconstruct the physician-patient relationship in late imperial China. There are two parts of the study: the first part studies the social life of physicians from late imperial Huizhou, and the second part investigates the voice and power of the patients in Ming-Qing China.he second chapter discusses the medical career and the self-fashioning of the Huizhou physicians. Through analyzing the process of their career-building, the chapter shows how physicians embodied the ideal of literate-physician (ru yi), and concerns the competition between internists (nei ke) and specialists (zhuan ke). The study also considers the symbolic exchange between the patients and the physicians.he third chapter turns to the other side of the story: the patients. In late imperial China, the role of patients is not passive and innocent. In contrast, they are very active in the process of remedy. They can choose varieties of healers, and sometimes they also do self-healing. In the bedside, the sickness often consult several different physicians. The healing process is a tug of war in which different forces including the physicians, patients and the relatives of the patients dispute. And the last part of the thesis explores the moral question of medicine. n conclusion, I point out the similarities between the late imperial China and the earlymodern Europe. But I also point out the unique characters of physician-patient relationship in China, and in Huizhou.
Subjects
Huizhou
medical cases
physician-patient relationship
medical marketplace
Type
thesis
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