A Study on the Official Medical Education System in Ancient China—Through the Lens of Institutional Transition and Structural Tensions
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 本文突破传统静态制度分析框架，提出“建制–发展–重构”动态分期模型，系统阐释中国古代官方医学教育体系的嬗变逻辑。并进一步通过构建政治整合、文化规训与技术标准化三重互动机制的分析框架，指出该体系本质是中央集权与医学知识生产规律博弈的产物。最后剖析其结构性矛盾——御医创新受制度压制、考核异化引发能力断层、世医制度导致技术锁死，最终揭示体系如何从知识生产载体蜕变为皇权附庸，为理解古代医学教育的内在演变机制提供了新的分析视角。This study transcends traditional static institutional analysis frameworks by proposing a dynamic periodization model of “Establishment-Development-Reconstruction”, systematically elucidating the evolutionary logic of China’s ancient official medical education system. Furthermore, it constructs an analytical framework centered on the tripartite interactive mechanisms of political integration, cultural discipline, and technical standardization, revealing the system to be fundamentally a product of the ongoing negotiation between centralized imperial authority and the inherent dynamics of medical knowledge production. Finally, it dissects the system’s inherent Structural Tensions: institutional suppression stifling imperial physician innovation, assessment distortions causing competency discontinuity, and the hereditary medical family system inducing technological lock-in. This analysis ultimately demonstrates how the system transformed from a vehicle for knowledge production into a subsidiary of imperial power, offering a novel analytical perspective on the intrinsic dynamics of ancient medical education.
Author: 金 黄
Institution: Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4412762702