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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 der...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1. Introduction; 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; Chapter 2. Sovereignty and the Microscope:The Containment of the Manchurian Plague, 1910-11; 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 IndividualsAvoiding Epidemics; Joining the Global Surveillance System; Conclusion: The Social Characteristics of the Manchurian Plague; Chapter 3. Connecting Medicine with the State: From Missionary Medicine to Public Health, 1860-1928; 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, 1926-27Conclusion; Chapter 4. Imagining the Relationship between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, 1890-1928; 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; Conclusion.
- Chapter 5. The Chinese Medical Revolution and the National Medicine MovementThe 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; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Visualizing Health Care in 1930s Shanghai; Reading a Chart of the Medical Environment in Shanghai; Western Medicine: Consolidation and Boundary-Drawing; Chinese Medicine: Fragmentation and Disintegration.
- Systematizing Chinese MedicineConclusion; Chapter 7. Science as a Verb: Scientizing Chinese Medicine and the Rise of Mongrel Medicine; 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"; Conclusion; Chapter 8. The Germ Theory and the Prehistory of "Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination."