Remaking patients : space politics under the conflict between Chinese and Western medicine (1832-1985) / Yang Nianqun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yang, Nianqun, author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Zai zao "bing ren." English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--China--History.

Medicine.

Medicine--Political aspects.

History.

Public health.

Social medicine.

China.

Social medicine--China--History.

Public health--China--History.

Medicine--Political aspects--China--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 351 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2020]

Summary:

"This book explores the long history of how Chinese people have been observed, transformed and treated as "patients" in modern times since the late Qing Dynasty. The title of "sick man in East Asia" is not only a metaphor of Chinese being bullied, but also a driving force for their own nationalistic social change. In this sense, "treatment" is not only a simple medical process, but also the focus of political and social system reform. Individual treatment behavior has become an integral part of the group political movement. By examining the history of the conflict between Chinese and Western medicine, this book reproduces the images of missionaries, midwives, sitting doctors, doctors and practitioners, barefoot doctors, politicians and social reformers of Western medicine, reflects another historical aspect of China's social change, and shows the complex interactive game relationship between modern political evolution and traditional medical factors"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The History Of Medicine In Another Narrative Framework

2. Fear And Acceptance Of Strange Space

Doctors Who Can't Save Souls

The Origin and Divergence of "Medical Mission"

Hospital as a Space to Spread the Gospel

Saving the Life or Soul?

Why Does Salvation Always Bring Disappointment?

Secular Root of Inner Struggles

Resetting the Boundary between Inside and Outside

"Caisheng Zhege": Official and Folk Imaginations

Production of Anti-Missionary Discourse

Spreading of Rumors and Church Space

How Are Patients Entrusted to Outsiders?

Hospital and "Entrustment System"

Dissipation of Fear

3. "Public Medical System" And "Life" And "Death" In Modern Cities

"Public Medical System" and Construction of Health Demonstration Zone

Birth of the Concept of Social Service

"John B. Grant Mode"

Operation of Health Demonstration Zones under "Community Overlapping"

Traditional Functions of Life and Death Control Rituals

Performance of Birth Ritual: Meaning of "Xisan"

Space-Time Technique of Death Control

"Street Politics": Resistance and Changes in Battlefield of Life and Death

Archiving of Life

"Statistical Officers" as Replacement of "Geomancers"

Training of Death Monitoring

The Change of Traditional Midwives

Enlarged Training Scope

The Vacillation between Legislation and Medicine

Inclusion of Midwives' Words and Deeds in Criminal Investigation Reports

Three Barriers in Identification of Death Causes

Ban and Defense of "Geomancers"

4. Chen Zhiqian Model And Rural Medical Revolution

How Did "White Coats" Find Their Place in Rural Areas?

From Lan Ansheng to Chen Zhiqian

Costs Make All the Difference

Three-Tiered Health Care: An Exploration of the "Localization" of Training

The Modern Battle between Witches and Doctors

Witches or Doctors?

-Expense Has a Say

The Competition over Efficacy

Community Medicine and the Rural Society

Offering Treatment via Dingxiang and Social Order

Belief in the "Top Four Sects" and the Secret Therapy

Asking for Incense Burning and Local Feeling

Xiangtous and Village Health Care

In Urban Areas and Rural Areas: The Mobility and Control of Witch Doctors

Xiangtous as Migrants

In the Name of Health care

A Glimpse into What Is Behind the Formation of Modern Customs

5. Traditional Chinese Medicine Vs. Western Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine Becoming the "Patient" to Be Treated by "Social Medicine" in 1929

What Is the Key to "Existence" and "Extinction" of Traditional Chinese Medicine?

Western Medicine Has "Political Correctness"

The Fierce Fight for the Identity of Group Epidemic Prevention

Transition from "Individual Epidemic Prevention" to "Group Epidemic Prevention"

Consequences of Institutional Accommodation

"Honeymoon Period" of TCM and Western Medicine

Feeling Politics in the Campaign

Speedy Transformation of TCM Practitioners into "Western Medical Practitioners"

The "TCM World" under the Control of New Ideology

Professional and Political Stratifications

Consequences of Stratification

Dislocation between Expression and Reality

The Evolution of TCM "Self-Organizational Form"

Professional Identity and Local Etiquette

The Role of the "Health Association"

Integration of Associations

6. Epidemic Prevention, Social Mobilization And State

A Big World Changed by Small "Bacteria"!

Differentiated: Ambiguity of Information Circulation

Differences in Public Response

Reproduction and Pan-Politicization of Rumors

How Does Epidemic Prevention Become a Kind of Politics in Daily Life?

Identifying and Balancing the Two Mindsets

The Stimulation of Nationalist Emotions

The Institutionalization Process of "Patriotic Health Campaign"

The Change of Epidemic Prevention Strategy at the Upper Level

The Structure of Epidemic Prevention Politics: Taking Mass Line

Epidemic Prevention by "Workers, Peasants and Soldiers"

Space Politics in Health and Epidemic Prevention

7. Destiny Of Barefoot Doctors

The Wrath of Mao Zedong

Why Is a "TCM Doctor" Not a "Health Worker"?

Attempts to "Localize" Medical Treatment

Neither Chinese nor Western or Both Chinese and Western

Start with a Training Class

Barefoot Doctor Liu Mingzhu

"Sand Mixing"

Revival of "Grass Doctors"

Social Network behind the Discourse in Political Movements

Status and Qualifications

Are Barefoot Doctors "Moral Saints"?

"Invariance" and "Change" of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

On "the Theory of Wearing Masks" and "the Theory of Wearing Shoes"

Epilogue: "Barefoot Doctors" at Dusk

Conclusion: How to Understand Modern Politics from the Perspective of "Medical History"?

"Body" as a Starting Point of Problems

Meaning of "Space"

"Body"→"Space"→"Institution"

"Social Mobilization" and "Country".

Notes:

Translation of: Zai zao "bing ren" : Zhong xi yi chong tu xia de kong jian zheng zhi, 1832-1985.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Yang, Nianqun. Zai zao "bing ren." English Remaking patients

ISBN:

9781433168734

1433168731

OCLC:

1196820049

Publisher Number:

99988835460