Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. In the century that followed, pressure to reform traditional medicine in China came not only from this small clutch of Westerners, but from within the country itself, as governments set on modernization aligned themselves against the traditions of the past, and individuals saw in the Western system the potential for new wealth and power. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-31
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Chinese Studies
Antal sidor316
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774824330
UtmärkelserShort-listed for ICAS Book Prize: Colleagues Choice Award 2015

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"The great merit of this book is that Andrews not only has extensively researched her topic, working with a broad range of primary and secondary sources, but also reads her materials critically."- Eric I. Karchmer (Asian Medicine) [The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960] present[s] a number of astute insights that promise to remain authoritative in the field for years to come … Andrews's discussion of the advent of scientific acupuncture provides a sorely needed historical explanation for its contemporary survival and popularity.- Howard Chiang (Journal of the History of Medicine)