“Use Me as Your Test!”

Hsiung, Hansun

doi:10.1086/719230

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“…Hsiung, for example, alludes to the anaesthetic developed by physician Hanaoka Seishū (1760-1835), an "unwritten proprietary secret" revealed only to his disciples. 85 Together, these papers illuminate how a focus on translation allows us to interrogate and differentiate between these features of authority-construction in histories of science and medicine.…”

Section: Section Iii: Translator-practitioners Expertise and Authoritymentioning

confidence: 97%

Translation and the Making of a Medical Archive

Ragab¹

2022

Osiris

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Research located at the nexus of medicine and translation deals with some of the fundamentals of human experience: the most basic drive to survive and flourish, and the urge to gather and to share information that might assist in this. Using a series of case-studies ranging from ninth-century Baghdad, to fourteenth-century Aragon, to seventeenth-century Cartagena, to nineteenth-century Bengal, this volume weaves together an interconnected, long-view history of the translation of medicine. The geographically and temporally diverse contexts of our case studies explore common themes and divergent experiences, connected by our historical actors' varied endeavours to "translate" knowledge about health and the body across languages, practices, and media. Collectively, we offer a new approach to histories of (medical) knowledge, re-localising and deconstructing traditional narratives, and de-emphasising well-worn dichotomies.

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Section: Section Iii: Translator-practitioners Expertise and Authoritymentioning

confidence: 97%