在寫本與印本之間的方書－宋代《千金方》的書籍史

This article offers a case study of the producing, printing and distributing of an important medical book, ”Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold”, in Song dynasty. It challenges the assumption that the print books produced byMedical Book Bureau in Northern Song dynasty dominated and changed the whole map of medical books in 11th century by presenting a historical picture that ”Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold” had various material forms, manuscripts, woodblock print books, and caved on stones, and produced by various groups, central government, local officers, physicians, literati with medical interests and commercial printers. By studying on the materiality of ”Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold”, the article reveal the complicity of the interaction between medical knowledge and social authority.