The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Softcover

Andrews, Bridie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774824336 ISBN 13: 9780774824330

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2015

Synopsis

Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.

About this title

Book Description:

A look at the surprising collision, and convergence, of Western traditions with Chinese medicine in modern China.

About the Author:

Bridie Andrews is an associate professor of history at Bentley University and teaches history of medicine at the New England School of Acupuncture in Massachusetts. She has coedited two books, Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge and Medicine and Identity in the Colonies.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0774824336
• ISBN 13: 9780774824330
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316