The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 is written by Bridie Andrews and published by UBC Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0774824344 (ISBN 10) and 9780774824347 (ISBN 13).

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 "Western" and "Chinese" 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 "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.