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The afterlife of images : translating the pathological body between China and the West /
"In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backward...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Body, commodity, text.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- How China became the "cradle of smallpox": transformations in discourse
- The pathological body: Lam Qua's medical portraiture
- The pathological empire: early medical photography in China
- "What's hard for the eye to see": anatomical aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun
- Epilogue: Through the microscope.