Study Of Medical Education In The Song Dynasty

Due to the stabilization of society, the economical boom, the development of science and technology, Education of Chinese Medical in Song Dynasty was recognized as a fast-developing period, which is also quite pivotal in the whole history of Chinese Medical Education. During which time, The medical education of Song Dynasty from both official and civilian have made important progress and new changes. All of these have made great impact on the medical education of ever after.With regard to official medical education side, the medical educators have inherited those useful experience from their ancestors, while at the same time, they took efforts to make appropriate innovation. That includes founding the specific medical education publishing houses, emendation and publication of a large numbers of Chinese medicine books, Refining the correlated institution and bureaucracy, promoting the position of medicine and so on. Those achievements in turn influencing the medical education of China later, and also advancing civilian medical education side, which inclues the spreading of private prescription, researching and publicating of private prescription books.The scholar-physician became a social role is a main feature of Song Dynasty medicine. Because of development of official medical education in Song Dynasty, improvement of doctors' educational level and increasing of books, medicine went to the direction of placing importance on medical books and theories.In Song Dynasty, government always tried their best to improve the level of local medicine education and medical treatment, and achieved some effect. In this thesis, offering a detailed picture of the medical education of China in Song Dynasty together with its analysis, through which we can understand the outline and its macroscopical features of medical education in ancient China much better.