This work is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the 17th-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.
This work is the biography of a Chinese disease. Born in antiquity and reaching maturity during the epidemics that swept China during the 17th-century...
This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times Marta Hanson approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. She 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 her book integrates the history of Chinese medicine into broader historical studies in a way that has not so...
This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbin...
