The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

by Bridie Andrews

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. In the century that followed, pressure to reform traditional medicine in China came not only from this small clutch of Westerners, but from within the country itself, as governments set on modernization aligned themselves against the traditions of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824841050
• ISBN13: 9780824841058
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"