Lo, V.;
(2009)
But is it [history of] medicine? Twenty years in the history of the healing arts of China.
Social History of Medicine
, 22
(2)
pp. 283-303.
10.1093/shm/hkp004.
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Abstract
This article sets out to give an account of changes to the map of the history of Chinese medicine in the last 20 years. Concentrating mainly on English language secondary sources, it charts shifting aspirations for social history of medicine in China, the impact of anthropology and the tensions between local and large-scale histories. On the one hand, there is a focus on cultural difference, and the articulation of unique styles of perception, where practitioner historians are seen to have an advantage. On the other, historians of China are shown to be facing the challenge of writing in a global context. The paper acknowledges the importance of the transmission of knowledge and practice across social, cultural and geographical boundaries as well as through time.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | But is it [history of] medicine? Twenty years in the history of the healing arts of China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hkp004 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkp004 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | History of Chinese medicine, state of the field |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/20129 |
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