Medical Treatment And Society Of Song Dynasty

The “Yi Jian Zhi”, written by the famous scholar Hong Mai of SouthernSong Dynasty, can be called as an encyclopedia for all social aspects of Song Dynastydue to its rich content and wide collection, it contains lots of historical materials andmedical stories. This paper, based on sorting and analysis on some representative storiesrelated to medical treatment and medicine in the Yi Jian Zhi, is to discuss the relationbetween medical treatment and society of Song Dynasty and reveal the social lifestyle atthat time.It mainly comprises the following parts:Introduction It is to introduce the purpose and meaning for title selection, as wellas curent research condition, research method, research approach and framework.Chapter One Based on the Yi Jian Zhi, it is to study the staff composition ofmedical market in Song Dynasty, patients’ method and channel for selection of doctorsand the medical customs such as frequent change of doctors and consultation of doctors,combination of medical treatment and witchcraft.Chapter Two Based on the Yi Jian Zhi, it is to reveal main diseases in SongDynasty affecting people’s health, main measures and methods taken to treat suchdiseases and the ideological roots of some patients to refuse medical treatment afterfalling ill.Chapter Three Based on the activities of scholar physicians and women doctors inthe Yi Jian Zhi, it is to discuss why do scholar physicians emerge in Song Dynasty, aswell as their medical activities, excellent medical skill and noble medical ethics, andreveal why can women doctors actively participate in medical activities in SongDynasty and the reason and influence of medical knowledge publicity.Chapter Four It is to study the relation between disease and society of SongDynasty based on interaction of social politics, economy and culture in Song Dynasty.The focus is discussion on the influence of disease on politics of Song Dynasty and much attention paid by then ruler to disease and his moralization of the mass based onthis point, the influence of disease on economy of Song Dynasty which is mainlydemonstrated through promoting development of aromatic drug industry due toprevention and treatment of disease and health care and the influence of disease onsocial customs and people’s lifestyle in Song Dynasty.