Article ID: CBB899256788

A Trauma Doctor’s Practice in Nineteenth-century China: The Medical Cases of Hu Tingguang (2016)

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This paper analyses the medical activities of Hu Tingguang, an early nineteenth-century Chinese healer who specialized in treating traumatic injuries. Hu aimed to improve the state of medical knowledge about injuries by writing a comprehensive treatise titled Compilation of Teachings on Traumatology, completed in 1815. This work notably included a set of medical cases describing the experiences of Hu and his father, which Hu used to teach readers how to employ and adapt different therapies: bone setting, petty surgery, and drugs. By examining how Hu dealt with different forms of damage to the body’s material form, this paper shows how manual therapies could be a focus of medical creativity and innovation. It also contributes to a growing corpus of scholarship exploring the way that awareness of and concern with the structure of the body historically shaped Chinese medical thought and practice.

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Authors & Contributors
Goldschmidt, Asaf
Robson, James
Zhang, Zongming
Veith, Ilza
Udwadia, Farokh Erach
Thompson, C. Michele
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine, Chinese traditional
East Asia, civilization and culture
Injuries
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Medicine, traditional
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Ancient
17th century
Medieval
18th century
Places
China
United States
Greece
Germany
Vietnam
Tibet
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