古代医学及世界建构:波斯晚期/希腊化早期犹大地区知识分子的视野

Ancient Medicine and World Construction among the Literati of Late Persian Period/Early Hellenistic Judah

本文是一篇有关医疗社会史以及治疗医师的研究,探讨的是在波斯晚期至希腊化早期的知识分子,他们通过阅读以及重复阅读以耶路撒冷为中心的核心文本构建其记忆世界,问题是为什么在这个记忆世界中,除了少数几处,绝大多数医药治疗行为、医师、医学知识甚至是萨满式的治疗活动几乎都看不到?对此问题答案的寻求阐明了知识分子与治疗医师共享的社会世界、社会记忆的作用,同时指出上述问题的历史偶然性特征,在此探讨这种相对的'缺失'的根源是什么,意味着什么。

This contribution to the social history of medicine and healing practitioners addresses the question of why is it that the within the world of memory evoked by readings and rereadings of the core repertoire of the Jerusalem-centred literati of the late Persian-early Hellenistic period,medical practices,physicians,medical lore,and with a few exemptions even shamanistic healers are,for the most part,absent?The search for an answer sheds light on the social world shared by the literati and the healing practitioners,the role of social memory,and draws attention to the historically contingent character of the mentioned,relative'absence'whose roots and implications are here explored.