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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

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Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies

Medical ReferenceChinese History

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ISBN10: 0774824336
ISBN13: 9780774824330
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Published: Jan 31 2015
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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