Аннотация:What were the qualifications of physicians in ancient China? Who judged them? Were they unique to medicine? Few records survive from the centuries in which medicine emerged from the domain of the hereditary artisan to become a cumulative tradition, with its doctrines, not merely its techniques, transmitted in books. This process hardly began earlier than the unification of China in 221 BC, and was not fully accomplished before the first century. I will begin with two sources, one from the second century BC and one from perhaps a century later, that throw light on what made a doctor.
