Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease

Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China (Needham Research Institute Series)
by: Marta Hanson
Review
“Marta Hanson’s thorough research into the process of change in Chinese medicine is well worth a place on practitioners’ bookshelves.” – Nancy Holroyde-Downing, The Journal of Chinese Medicine, February 2012.
“A groundbreaking work on the history of Chinese epidemiology.. rather than simply being a rich description of a long neglected aspect of Chinese medicine, Hanson’s book engages in a powerful analysis of the material at hand..Hanson’s book stands as a most significant contribution to understanding epidemiological theory and practice in Imperial China. At the same time, it provides social historians and anthropologists of medicine with a new focus on spatiality and the ‘geographic imagination’ of disease. This demonstrates clearly that far from being confined to Hippocratic or Western-colonial medicine, the territorialisation of disease constitutes a significant governmental apparatus for non-western imperial and state formations.” – Christos Lynteris, University of Cambridge, 2013.
“Informative, rewarding reading for anyone interested in the history of medicine, of science, or of China in general. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” Choice
About the Author
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.
Product details
Item Weight: 1.25 pounds
Hardcover: 288 pages
ISBN-13: 9780415602532
ISBN-10: 041560253X
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
Publisher: Routledge; 1st Edition (August 9, 2011)
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