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The afterlife of images : translating the pathological body between China and the West / Larissa N. Heinrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinrich, Larissa.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Body, commodity, text.
- Body, commodity, text
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical illustration--China--History.
- Medical illustration.
- Medicine in art--China--History.
- Medicine in art.
- Missions, Medical--China--History.
- Missions, Medical.
- Medicine--China--History.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century.
- Contents:
- How China became the "cradle of smallpox": transformations in discourse
- The pathological body: Lam Qua's medical portraiture
- The pathological empire: early medical photography in China
- "What's hard for the eye to see": anatomical aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022660
- 9780822388821
- 0822388820
- 9781283022668
- 1283022664
- OCLC:
- 191855689
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