Neither donkey nor horse : medicine in the struggle over China's modernity / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lei, Xianglin, author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Medicine.

Medicine, Chinese Traditional--history.

History.

China.

History of Medicine.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Social Change--history.

Medical Subjects:

Medicine, Chinese Traditional--history.

China.

History of Medicine.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Social Change--history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages).

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Other Title:

Medicine in the struggle over China's modernity

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

When Chinese Medicine Encountered the State

Beyond the Dual History of Tradition and Modernity

Toward a Coevolutionary History

China's Modernity

The Discourse of Modernity

Neither Donkey nor Horse

Conventions

2 Sovereignty and the Microscope: The Containment of the Manchurian Plague, 1910-11 21

Not Believing That "This Plague Could Be Infectious"

Pneumonic Plague versus Bubonic Plague

"The Most Brutal Policies Seen in Four Thousand Years"

Challenges from Chinese Medicine: Hong Kong versus Manchuria

Chuanran: Extending a Network of Infected Individuals

Avoiding Epidemics

Joining the Global Surveillance System

Conclusion: The Social Characteristics of the Manchurian Plague

3 Connecting Medicine with the State: From Missionary Medicine to Public Health, 1860-1928 45

Missionary Medicine

Western Medicine in Late Qing China versus Meiji Japan

The First Generation of Chinese Practitioners of Western Medicine

Western Medicine as a Public Enterprise

"Public Health: Time Not Ripe for Large Work," 1914-24

The Ministry of Health and the Medical Obligations of Modern Government, 1926-27

Conclusion

4 Imagining the Relationship between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, 1890-1928 69

Converging Chinese and Western Medicine in the Late 1890s

Non-Identity between the Meridian Channels and the Blood Vessels

Yu Yan and the Tripartition of Chinese Medicine

To Avoid the Place of Confrontation

Ephedrine and Scientific Research on Nationally Produced Drugs

Inventing an Empirical Tradition of Chinese Medicine

5 The Chinese Medical Revolution and the National Medicine Movement 97

The Chinese Medical Revolution

Controversy over Legalizing Schools of Chinese Medicine

Abolishing Chinese Medicine: The Proposal of 1929

The March Seventeenth Demonstration

The Ambivalent Meaning of Guoyi

The Delegation to Nanjing

Envisioning National Medicine

6 Visualizing Health Care in 1930s Shanghai 121

Reading a Chart of the Medical Environment in Shanghai

Western Medicine: Consolidation and Boundary-Drawing

Chinese Medicine: Fragmentation and Disintegration

Systematizing Chinese Medicine

7 Science as a Verb: Scientizing Chinese Medicine and the Rise of Mongrel Medicine 141

The Institute of National Medicine

The China Scientization Movement

The Polemic of Scientizing Chinese Medicine: Three Positions

Embracing Scientization and Abandoning Qi-Transformation

Rejecting Scientization

Reassembling Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture and Zhuyou Exorcism

The Challenge of "Mongrel Medicine"

8 The Germ Theory and the Prehistory of "Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination" 167

Do You Recognize the Existence of Infectious Diseases?

Notifiable Infectious Disease

Unifying Nosological Nomenclature and Translating Typhoid Fever

Incorporating the Germ Theory into Chinese Medicine

Pattern versus Disease

A Prehistory of "Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination"

9 Research Design as Political Strategy: The Birth of the New Antimalaria Drug Changshan 193

Changshan as a Research Anomaly

Scientific Research on Nationally Produced Drugs

Stage One: Overcoming the Barrier to Entry

Curing Mrs Chu

Stage Two: Re-networking Changshan

Identifying Changshan

Two Research Protocols: 1-2-3-4-5 versus 5-4-3-2-1

Reverse-Order Protocol: 5-4-3-2-1

Research Protocol as Political Strategy

Conclusion: The Politics of Knowledge and the Regime of Value

10 State Medicine for Rural China, 1929-49 223

Defining China's Medical Problem

Discovering Rural China

The Ding County Model of Community Medicine

State Medicine and the Chinese Medical Association

State Medicine and Local Self-Government

The Issue of Eliminating Village Health Workers

Chinese Medicine for Rural China

11 Conclusion: Thinking with Modern Chinese Medicine 259

Medicine and the State

Creation of Values

Medicine and China's Modernity: Nationalist versus Communist

Chinese Medicine and Science and Technology Studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Lei, Xianglin, author. Neither donkey nor horse

ISBN:

9780226169910

022616991X

Publisher Number:

99982945124

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