An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century.
An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ari Larissa Heinrich is Professor of Chinese Literature and Media at the Australian National University. He is the author of Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Embodied Modernities: Corporeality and Representation in Chinese Cultures.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. How China Became the "Cradle of Smallpox": Transformations in Discourse 15 2. The Pathological Body: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture 39 3. The Pathological Empire: Early Medical Photography in China 73 4. "What's Hard for the Eye to See": Anatomical Aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun 113 Epilogue: Through the Microscope 149 Notes 157 Bibliography 197 Index 213
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. How China Became the "Cradle of Smallpox": Transformations in Discourse 15 2. The Pathological Body: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture 39 3. The Pathological Empire: Early Medical Photography in China 73 4. "What's Hard for the Eye to See": Anatomical Aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun 113 Epilogue: Through the Microscope 149 Notes 157 Bibliography 197 Index 213
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