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By Bridie Andrews



The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 (Contemporary Chinese Studies) By Bridie Andrews

 | #3479184 in Books  |  University of British Columbia Press  |  2014-04-01  | Original language: English  | PDF # 1  |  9.10 x .90 x 6.10l,  | File type: PDF  | 316 pages | File size: 36.Mb
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Most Helpful 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 oWesterno and oChineseo 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 oscientific About the Author Bridie Andrews is an associate professor of history at Bentley University and teaches history of medicine at the New England School of Acupuncture She has co edited two books Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge 1997 and Medicine and Iden

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