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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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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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Foundations and inheritances. 1. Medical history in three themes : Chinese epidemiology, the geographic imagination, and a biography of wenbing, "Warm diseases"
- 2. A deep history of the Chinese geographic imagination : the five directions, northwest-southeast dichotomy, and southern shift
- Part II. New Ming medical boundaries. 3. The geographic imagination in Ming medicine : Northern purgatives, southern restoratives, and conceptions of north and south
- 4. Ming medical frontiers : diseases of the Far South, new conceptions of contagion
- 5. Ming medical skepticism : epidemiological crisis, cosmological criticism
- Part III. Early modern medical transformations. 6. Matters of place : epistemological divisions, genealogical divergence
- 7. Emergence of traditions : the nineteenth-century genealogy and geography of Warm diseases
- 8. Conclusion : new and old nosologies in modern China--from imagining to mapping the geography of diseases in China (and back again)