Neither Donkey nor Horse : Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity /

Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later. Instead of viewing this transition as derivativ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Temas:
Medicine > China > History > 20th century.
MEDICAL / General.
medicine, history, china, modernity, tradition, manchurian plague, communism, nationalism, science, nonfiction, social change, village, rural, health workers, ding county, community, changshan, antimalaria, drugs, research, prescriptions, pharmaceuticals, germ theory, disease, typhoid, qi, acupuncture, zhuyou, guoyi, shanghai, consolidation, hong kong, epidemics, manchuria, healthcare.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Sovereignty and the Microscope: The Containment of the Manchurian Plague, 1910-11
  • 3. Connecting Medicine with the State: From Missionary Medicine to Public Health, 1860-1928
  • 4. Imagining the Relationship between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, 1890-1928
  • 5. The Chinese Medical Revolution and the National Medicine Movement
  • 6. Visualizing Health Care in 1930s Shanghai
  • 7. Science as a Verb: Scientizing Chinese Medicine and the Rise of Mongrel Medicine
  • 8. The Germ Theory and the Prehistory of "Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination"
  • 9. Research Design as Political Strategy: The Birth of the New Antimalaria Drug Changshan
  • 10. State Medicine for Rural China, 1929-49 223
  • 11. Conclusion: Thinking with Modern Chinese Medicine
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
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