The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774824330)

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: 0774824336
ISBN-13: 9780774824330
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2015
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback