par Marta Hanson
(The Johns Hopkins University,
Department of the History of Medicine)
Conférence
du CENTRE POUR UNE HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES VUES D’ASIE (CHSA)
Mardi 3 décembre 2019, 14h-16h
Université Paris Diderot,
bâtiment Condorcet,
salle Gris, 734A
Page de couverture d’un livre de médecine relatif au pouls et écrit en vers, utilisant dans son titre les caractères "Doigts 指" et "Paume 掌" de la main (en français, Manuel en vers pour une étude du pouls).
The essentials, behind the elbows, for emergencies, gold, hand-held, and heart-mind mirrors, pointing south and pointing to one’s palm, within or hung from the sleeves – these are just some of the metaphors found in Chinese medical titles from late antiquity through the late medieval period. This talk focuses on the transformations in the main metaphors that authors of Chinese medical books used to convey to potential readers their “learning-by-the-book” contents. It finds that in contrast to the European preference for hand metaphors in enchiridions, manuals, and handbooks, the Chinese medical archive preserves a wide variety of bodily metaphors within which the hand metaphor appears very late and then is superseded by metaphors that rely rather on the fingers and palms. After a survey of the metaphors used in titles of Chinese medical texts, we explore the many ways Chinese healers used their hands mnemonically to think with, what concepts of time and space, Heaven and Earth, mattered in their medical practice, and how exploring this phenomenon reveals deeper cognitive practices in Chinese medicine and broader transformations in Chinese history.
Marta Hanson est professeure d’histoire de la médecine à la faculté de médecine de l’Université Johns Hopkins, Maryland. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire de la science et de la médecine chinoises.
Organisation : Florence Bretelle-Establet (CNRS, CHSA–SPHERE)
Université Paris Diderot – CNRS
Laboratoire SPHERE - UMR 7219
Bâtiment Condorcet, 4, rue Elsa Morante
75013 Paris
Carte du campus map
Metro ligne 14 & RER C / Stop : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Metro ligne 6 / Station : Quai de la Gare
Bus 62 & 89 / Stop:Bibliothèque rue Mann
Bus 64 / Stop : Tolbiac-Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Bus 325 / Stop : Watt
