The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Hardcover

Andrews, Bridie

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9780774824323: The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

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ISBN 10: 0774824328 ISBN 13: 9780774824323

Publisher: UBC Press, 2014

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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 dichotomy between “Western” and “Chinese” medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers 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.

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This highly anticipated book will make an excellent teaching text in Chinese history and the history of science and medicine. Written in an accessible and delightfully jargon-free yet sophisticated manner, it should appeal to a broad academic readership. Author: Ari Larissa Heinrich, author of The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

From the Author:

Bridie Andrews is an associate professor of history at Bentley University and teaches history of medicine at the New England School of Acupuncture. She has co-edited two books, Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge (1997) and Medicine and Identity in the Colonies (2003).

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