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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

by Bridie Andrews

Published by: UBC Press

Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies

Imprint: UBC Press

10 b&w photos, 2 line art, 2 maps, 2 tables

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9780774824347
Published: December 2014

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This book will be of particular interest to students or scholars studying China, medical history, or East-West relations.

1 Modernities and Medicines

2 The Spectrum of Chinese Healing Practices

3 Missionary Medicine from the West

4 The Significance of Medical Reforms in Japan

5 Public Health and State-Building

6 Medical Lives

7 New Medical Institutions

8 From New Theories to New Practices

9 Conclusions: Medicine and Modernity with David L. Schwarzkopf

Notes; Bibliography; Index

Bridie Andrews is an associate professor of history at Bentley University and teaches history of medicine at the New England School of Acupuncture. She has co-edited two books, Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge (1997) and Medicine and Identity in the Colonies (2003).

"The great merit of this book is that Andrews not only has extensively researched her topic, working with a broad range of primary and secondary sources, but also reads her materials critically."
~Eric I. Karchmer, Asian Medicine

[The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960] present[s] a number of astute insights that promise to remain authoritative in the field for years to come … Andrews’s discussion of the advent of scientific acupuncture provides a sorely needed historical explanation for its contemporary survival and popularity.
~Howard Chiang, Journal of the History of Medicine

ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars (2015) - Short-listed