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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960
ISBN: 9780774824330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western... Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical mis... |
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Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation
ISBN: 9780231175005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A leading authority explains the origins and history of Chinese medicine from its beginnings in antiquity to today. Paul U. Unschuld describes medicine's close connection with culture and politics throughout Chinese history. He brings together texts, techniques, and worldviews to understand changing Chinese attitudes toward healing and the significance of traditional Chinese medicine in both China and the Western world. Unschuld reveals the emergence of a Chinese medical tradition built around a new understanding of the human being, considering beliefs in the influence of cosmology,...
A leading authority explains the origins and history of Chinese medicine from its beginnings in antiquity to today. Paul U. Unschuld describes medicin...
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Medicine and Colonial Identity
ISBN: 9781138867932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis. This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accommodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative. Contributors to this volume explore the perceived self-identity of colonizers; the adoption of western and traditional medicine as complementary aspects of a new, modern and nationalist identity; the creation of a modern identity for women in the colonies;...
Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis....
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145,69 |
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Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China
ISBN: 9780253014900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects--disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people's health--organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the book's significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating western medicine, the improvements in medical health and services during the long Sino-Japanese war, and the important role of the... This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subject... |
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97,10 |
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Medicine and Colonial Identity
ISBN: 9780415288804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Individuals or groups define their identities in particular ways, choosing from a long list of social variables: nationality, class, race, gender, age, sexuality, occupation or marital status, all of which may change either by choice or fiat. During the 20th century, the issue of identity became increasingly important and yet it remains a problematic category of historical analysis. The historical record is full of diplomats and peasants discussing medicine and health concerns and topics which are significant to the study of medicine - professionalization, therapeutic choice, medical...
Individuals or groups define their identities in particular ways, choosing from a long list of social variables: nationality, class, race, gender, age...
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