Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
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Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine--sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions. In Forgotten Disease, Hilary A. Smith...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1503602095
ISBN13:9781503602090
Release Date:October 2017
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"
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