The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

von Bridie Andrews

316 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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. In the century that followed, pressure to reform traditional medicine in China came not only from this small clutch of Westerners, but from within the country itself, as governments set on modernization aligned themselves against the traditions of the past, and individuals saw in the Western system the potential for new wealth and power. 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.

• Themen: Medizin Komplementäre, integrierte und alternative Medizin und Therapien
• ISBN: 9780774824323
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2014
• Größe: 231 x 155 mm
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press