The History of Habits: A Critical Unknown in the History of Chinese Medicine

Shigehisa Kuriyama

doi:10.1097/MC9.0000000000000075

Chinese Medicine and Culture (Sep 2023)

The History of Habits: A Critical Unknown in the History of Chinese Medicine

Shigehisa Kuriyama

Affiliations

Shigehisa Kuriyama: 1 Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), Harvard University, Cambridge 02138, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/MC9.0000000000000075
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 3
pp. 297 – 300

Abstract

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This essay articulates a new conceptual distinction – that between repertories and habits – and urges that the history of habits is the most critical unknown in the study of Chinese medical history.

Published in Chinese Medicine and Culture

ISSN: 2589-9627 (Print); 2589-9473 (Online)
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/LWW
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Other systems of medicine
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