Marta Hanson

Gebundenes Buch

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine

Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780415602532
• ISBN-10: 041560253X
• Artikelnr.: 31892681

Rezensionen

"Rich, detailed, and hugely impressive in scope, Marta Hanson's history of the "warm diseases" or the wenbing disease classification, from the earliest references in the canonical medical literature through to the present day, is a welcome addition to the Needham Research Institute Series of texts on East Asian medical history... the picture she paints is not only a fantastically thorough portrait of the Chinese wenbing disease concept that will be of interest to historians of East Asian medical history, but also a richly textured landscape that reveals much about the previously unexplored intersections between geography and disease and will have a broader appeal to anyone interested in the dynamic interplay between medicine and society." - Joanna Grant; Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2013.