Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine : disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China / Marta E. Hanson.
"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 C...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2011.
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| Series: | Needham Research Institute series.
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| Summary: | "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"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 265 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203829875 0203829875 9780203829592 020382959X 9781136816420 1136816429 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |