Article ID: CBB758196736

Ding Fubao and the Morals of Medical Modernization (2015)

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Andrews, Bridie J. (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Issue: 42
Pages: 7-38


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Leading article of a special issue on "the History of Chinese Medicine"
Language: English

Abstract This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator Ding Fubao 丁福保 (1874-1952). Ding’s career as an early adopter and translator of scientific medicine, and as a broker between western-trained physicians and reform-minded practi-tioners of Chinese medicine, affords rare insight into both the promise and the shortcomings of western-style medical modernization. In particular, Ding’s experiences illustrate the ways in which illness and healing re-mained closely associated with moral virtue, even in the mind of this most committed modernizer. Through Ding, we can examine the growth of modern professions in China and the struggle to achieve any kind of professional monopoly on practice; the huge influence of Japan on China’s modernization, and aspects of the relationship between culture and scientific change.

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Authors & Contributors
Chen, Zhihui
Huang Xing
Paramore, Kiri
Skuncke, Marie-Christine
Liu, Xuan
Wu, Yunhao
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
East Asia, civilization and culture
Western world, civilization and culture
Medicine
Transmission of ideas
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Time Periods
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Medieval
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
17th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Early modern
Places
China
Japan
Europe
Korea
Yellow River (China)
East Asia
Institutions
Uppsala Universitet
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