Rhythms of Medicine and Community in Late Sixteenth Century Japan: Yamashina Tokitsune (1543-1611) and his Patients

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[Andrew Edmund Goble is Professor of Japanese History and of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. His recent research has focused on issues of medicine and society in pre-modern Japan. He is most recently the author of “War and Injury: The Emergence of Wound Medicine in Medieval Japan” (Monumenta Nipponica, 2005); “Kajiwara Shōzen (1265-1337) and the Medical Silk Road: Chinese and Arabic Influences on Medieval Japanese Medicine” (In Goble, Robinson and Wakabayashi (eds.), Tools of Culture: Japan’s Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s-1500s, 2009). His manuscript Confluences of Medicine: Exploring Song Chinese Medical Knowledge in Medieval Japan, will be appearing from the University of Hawai’i Press.]