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The Doctor, the Scholar (and the Meditator?) 
in Middle Period China

A doctor, a scholar, and a meditator walk into a bar… and they’re the same person!

This (admittedly rather bad) joke flitted into my head while we sat together on a grey October day at Johns Hopkins’ Institute for the History of Medicine discussing the frequent but frequently fraught intersections of meditation, healing, and the scholarship that claims to understand these two. Continue reading The Doctor, the Scholar (and the Meditator?) 
in Middle Period China