| The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 Contributor(s): Andrews, Bridie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774824328 ISBN-13: 9780774824323 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Medical | Alternative & Complementary Medicine - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 610.9 |
| Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.14 lbs) 316 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |