The Contest between Life-Oriented and Specialization : A Study on the Self-treatment Phenomenon in Ming and Qing Dynasties in China.

However, in our study of Chinese medical history, especially when looking through historical materials such as medical books, local chronicles, genealogies, notes and anthologies, the author found that the self-treatment phenomenon in the Ming-Qing dynasties had quite significant characteristics compared with the previous dynasties, mainly reflected in: Before the Song Dynasty, the imparting of medical knowledge was closed and inaccessible to ordinary people, while after the Song-Yuan Dynasties, medical knowledge was in an open state, especially in the Ming-Qing dynasties, the trend of popularization and socialization was particularly obvious.

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