"Use Me as Your Test!": Patients, Practitioners, and the Commensurability of Virtue.

Cutting deeply into a patient's body posed a problem for medical deontology in premodern East Asia, defined by the Confucian virtue of "humaneness" and a preference for noninvasive cures. How did Japanese physicians reconcile "humaneness" with their interest in invasive European surgical techniques?...

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Publicado en:Osiris Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 273 - 297
Autor principal: Hsiung, Hansun
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Publicado: University of Chicago Press 2022
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