Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine : disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China /: disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marta E. Hanson.
• Other Names: Hanson, Marta E
• Contents: (Publisher-supplied data) Chapter One Medical History in Three Themes: Chinese epidemiology, the geographic imagination, and a biography of wenbing Warm diseases 29 -- Chapter Two A Deep History of the Chinese Geographic Imagination: The five directions, northwest-southeast dichotomy, and southern shift 76 -- Chapter Three The Geographic Imagination in Ming Medicine: Northern purgatives, southern restoratives, and conceptions of north and south 130 -- Chapter Four Ming Medical Frontiers: Diseases of the Far South, new conceptions of contagion 179 -- Chapter Five Ming Medical Skepticism: Epidemiological Crisis, Cosmological Criticism 238 -- Chapter Six Matters of Place: Epistemological Divisions, Genealogical Divergence 273 -- Chapter Seven Emergence of Traditions: The nineteenth-century genealogy and geography of Warm diseases 331.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages), (5 illustrations)
• Subjects: 610.951; MEDICAL / Diseases; Medicine, Chinese -- History; Epidemiology -- China; Pathology -- China -- History; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- China; Disease -- classification -- China; Geography -- history -- China; History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- China; History, Medieval -- China; History, Modern 1601- -- China; Medicine, Chinese Traditional -- history -- China; MEDICAL / History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136816413; 1136816410
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.