{"product_id":"the-making-of-modern-chinese-bridie-andrews-9780774824330","title":"The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bridie Andrews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774824336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774824330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Bridie Andrews","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48850215469311,"sku":"9780774824330","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-making-of-modern-chinese-bridie-andrews-9780774824330","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}