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One of the most interesting aspects to this, I find, is how they set aside their own age-old teachings and beliefs when someone else's proved more accurate. The
by krono 5y ago
One of the most interesting aspects to this, I find, is how they set aside their own age-old teachings and beliefs when someone else's proved more accurate. Their willingness and the effort it must have cost to test if it was is already very impressive.
- a_bonobo 5y agoI read Ann Vannetta's The Vaccinators last year, on the first days of Western-style medicine in Japan, and one of my main takeaways was how unusual these doctors were for their time and their culture, often risking political persecution, building a kind of underground network of knowledge. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1440324.The_Vaccinators https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1440324.The_Vaccinators