Forgotten disease : illnesses transformed in Chinese medicine /

Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine-sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Hilary A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Temas:
Beri-beri > China > History.
Medicine > China > History.
Foot > Diseases > China > History.
Medical literature > China > History.
Foot Diseases > history
Beriberi > history
Medicine, Chinese Traditional > history
Béribéri > Chine > Histoire.
Médecine > Chine > Histoire.
Pied > Maladies > Chine > Histoire.
Médecine > Documentation > Chine > Histoire.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Beri-beri
Foot > Diseases
Medical literature
Medicine
Médecine chinoise.
Médecines parallèles.
Médecine ancienne.
Pied > Maladies.
Médecine > Histoire > Chine.
Maladies.
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foot qi in early Chinese medicine
  • Competing for medical authority
  • Simplifying and standardizing disease
  • The northerner's eating disorder
  • Getting rich and getting sick
  • Creating beriberi in Meiji Japan
  • Foot qi's multiple meanings in modern East Asia.

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