The Afterlife of Images : Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Heinrich, Larissa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kulturkontakt
Bildliche Darstellung
Krankheit
Chinabild
Missions, Medical.
Medicine.
Medical illustration.
Medicine in art.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
MEDICAL > History.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Études transculturelles.
Attitudes à l'egard de la sante.
Medecine dans l'art > Histoire.
Medecine > Chine > Histoire.
Missions medicales > Chine > Histoire.
Medecine et art > Histoire.
Illustration medicale > Histoire.
Stereotyping
Missions and Missionaries > history
Medical Illustration > history
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
History, 18th Century
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Attitude to Health
Medicine in the Arts
Medicine and art > History.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Cross-cultural studies.
Health attitudes.
Medicine > China > History.
Missions, Medical > China > History.
Medicine in art > History.
Medical illustration > History.
China
Westliche Welt
China.
Europe.
United States
Europe
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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