Thinking in Cases : : Ancient Greek and Imperial Chinese Case Narratives /

Thinking in Cases : : Ancient Greek and Imperial Chinese Case Narratives / / ed. by Markus Asper.

Who is afraid of case literature? In an influential article ("Thinking in Cases", 1996), John Forrester made a case for studying case literature more seriously, exemplifying his points, mostly, with casuistic traditions of law. Unlike in modern literatures, case collections make up a signi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Asper, Markus,
Cuomo, Serafina,
Graumann, Lutz Alexander,
Keyser, Paul T.,
Kirk, Nalini,
Mattern, Susan P.,
Schonebaum, Andrew,
Thumiger, Chiara,
HerausgeberIn:
Asper, Markus,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures , 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Structure and Meaning in the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Children and the Art of Medical Storytelling: Contemporary Practice and Hippocratic Case-taking Compared
  • Storytelling in Greek Law Courts
  • The Peripatetic Problems: Visions and Re-visions, That a Scholar Will Revise
  • Thinking in Cases in Ancient Greek Mathematics
  • Rhetoric, Treatment and Authority in the Medical Cases of Xiao Jing蕭京(1605–1672)
  • Demonological Poison (Gudu 蠱毒) and Cutting the Flesh [to Make Medicine] (Gegu割股): A History of Two Case Histories
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index Rerum Nominumque

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