Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine : disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hanson, Marta E.
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
Series:	Needham Research Institute series.
Subjects:	Medicine, Chinese > History. Epidemiology > China. Pathology > China > History. Disease Outbreaks > history. Disease > classification. Geography > history. Medicine, Chinese Traditional > history. History, Modern 1601- History, Early Modern 1451-1600. History, Medieval. China. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Part I. Foundations and inheritances. 1. Medical history in three themes : Chinese epidemiology, the geographic imagination, and a biography of wenbing, "Warm diseases"
2. A deep history of the Chinese geographic imagination : the five directions, northwest-southeast dichotomy, and southern shift
Part II. New Ming medical boundaries. 3. The geographic imagination in Ming medicine : Northern purgatives, southern restoratives, and conceptions of north and south
4. Ming medical frontiers : diseases of the Far South, new conceptions of contagion
5. Ming medical skepticism : epidemiological crisis, cosmological criticism
Part III. Early modern medical transformations. 6. Matters of place : epistemological divisions, genealogical divergence
7. Emergence of traditions : the nineteenth-century genealogy and geography of Warm diseases
8. Conclusion : new and old nosologies in modern China--from imagining to mapping the geography of diseases in China (and back again).