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The afterlife of images : translating the pathological body between China and the West / Larissa N. Heinrich.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2008 Available online

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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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