"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?...
| Publicado en: | Osiris Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 273 - 297 |
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University of Chicago Press
2022
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