What a household with sick persons should know : expressions of body and illness in a medical text of early nineteenth-century Japan
This thesis assesses the image and expressions of the body and illness in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1867), by examining a text on the cultivation of life, Byoka suchi (What a household with sick persons should know). A unique feature of Byoka suchi is its use of script combining Chinese char...
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SOAS, University of London
2009
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758503 |