Marta Hanson

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the seventeenth-century collapse of the Ming dynasty, the ancient notion of wenbing "Warm diseases" continued to play a role even in the response of Traditional Chinese Medicine to the outbreak of SARS in 2002-3. By following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times this book approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. It explores the possibility of replacing older narratives that stress progress and linear development with accounts that pay attention to geographic, intellectual, and cultural diversity. By doing so it integrates the history of Chinese medicine into broader historical studies in a way that has not so far been attempted, and addresses the concerns of a readership much wider than that of Chinese medicine specialists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780415835350
• ISBN-10: 0415835356
• Artikelnr.: 36901413

Autorenporträt

Marta Hanson is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, USA. Her research interests are in the history of medicine, disease, and public health in China and the cultural history of Chinese arts of memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Foundation and Inheritances 1. Medical History in Three Themes 2. A
Deep History of the Chinese Geographic Imagination: The Five Regions,
Northwest-Southeast, and the Southern Shift Part 2: New Ming Medical
Boundaries 3: The Geographic Imagination in Ming Medicine: Northern
Purgatives, Southern Restoratives, and Conceptions of North and South 4.
Ming Medical Frontiers: Diseases of the Far South, New Conceptions of
Contagion 5. Ming Medical Scepticism: Epidemiological Crisis, Cosmological
Criticism Part 3: Early-Modern and Modern Medical Transformations 6.
Matters of Place: Epistemological Divergence, Genealogical Division 7.
Emergence of Traditions: The Nineteenth-Century Genealogy and Geography of
Warm Diseases Conclusion New and Old Nosologies in Modern China: From the
Geographic Imagination to Distribution of Diseases in China (and back
again)