Book ID: CBB000830879

The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West (2008)

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Heinrich, Larissa Nausicaa (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xiv + 222 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Explores the West's representation of China as sick or diseased.


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Review Chiang, Howard H. (2009) Review of "The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West". Social History of Medicine (p. 659). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fliethmann, Axel
Weller, Christiane
Golding, Rebecca Lampert
Cohen, Adam S.
Wu, Yi-Li
Wagner, Darren
Journals
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Tsing-hua hsueh-pao (Journal of Tsing-hua University)
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Medical History
Publishers
Brill
Zone
University of British Columbia Press
Harvard University Press
University of Toronto
Concepts
Medicine
Visual representation; visual communication
East Asia, civilization and culture
Scientific illustration
Human body
Medicine, Chinese traditional
People
Zhu, Zhenheng
Needham, Joseph
Mouat, Frederic J.
Hobson, Benjamin
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Yuan Dynasty (China, ca. 1260-1368)
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
China
Europe
Greece
Tibet
Japan
Rome (Italy)
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