The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 by Andrews, Bridie

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774824323)

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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 by Andrews, Bridie

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

$99.00
The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 by Andrews, Bridie

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

$99.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Bridie Andrews
ISBN-10: 0774824328
ISBN-13: 9780774824323
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

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Choice 11/01/2014 pg. 484
By Bridie Andrews
By Bridie Andrews
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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.

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