The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960 / Bridie Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Bridie, author.

Series:

Contemporary Chinese studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Chinese--China--History--19th century.

Medicine, Chinese.

Medicine, Chinese--China--History--20th century.

Medical care--China--History--19th century.

Medical care.

Medical care--China--History--20th century.

History.

China.

Physical Description:

xvi, 294 pages : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2014.

Summary:

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. This book examines the received dichotomies between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how they have been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernisers 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Modernities and Medicines 1

2 The Spectrum of Chinese Healing Practices 25

3 Missionary Medicine from the West 51

4 The Significance of Medical Reforms in Japan 69

5 Public Health and State-Building 89

6 Medical Lives 112

7 New Medical Institutions 145

8 From New Theories to New Practices 185

9 Conclusions: Medicine and Modernity / David L. Schwarzkopf Schwarzkopf, David L. 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [252]-266) and index.

Other Format:

Andrews, Bridie, author. Making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.

ISBN:

9780774824323

0774824328

OCLC:

879519522