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CHEN,
Hsiu-fen. "Medicine, Society, and the Making of Madness in Imperial
China," Ph.D.
dissertation,
School
of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2003.
HINRICHS, TJ "The Medical Transforming of Governance and Southern Customs in Song China (960-1279 C.E.)," Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 2003.
VALUSSI, Elena. "Beheading the Red Dragon:
A History of Female Inner Alchemy in China," Ph.D.
dissertation,
School of Oriental and African
Studies, 2003.
HEINRICH,
Larissa N.: “The Pathological Body: Science, race and literary
realism
in China, 1770-1930.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley,
2002.
SHENMO,
Connie Anne: “An Army of Women”: The medical ministries of Kang
Cheng
and Shi Meiyu. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at
Binghamton, 2002.
SHINNO, Reiko: “Promoting Medicine in the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368): an aspect of Mongol rule in China." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 2002. SZTO, Peter Paul. "The accommodation of insanity in Canton, China: 1857-1925." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
WILMS, Sabine. "The Female Body in Medieval Chinese Medicine: A Translation and Interpretation of the "Women's Recipes" in Sun Simiao's Beiji qianjin yaofang," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arizona, 2002. ZHAN, Mei. "The Worlding of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Translocational study of knowledge, identity, and cultural politics in China and the United States." Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 2002."
LIU, Xun.
"In Search of Immortality: Inner Alchemy Practice in early 20th century
China," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 2001.
TERAZAWA,
Yuki: “Gender, knowledge, and power: reproductive medicine in
Japan, 1790-1930.” Ph.D. dissertation,
University of California, Los Angeles, 2001.
2000
Buell, Paul D., Eugene N. Anderson and Charles Perry. A Soup for
the Qan. London: Kegan Paul International, 2000. (Read
description)
Hsu, Elisabeth. Innovation, Convention and Controversy in Chinese Medicine. Needham Research Institute Monograph Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In press.
Wu, Yi-Li. "The Bamboo Grove Monastery and Popular Gynecology in Qing China." Late Imperial China (June 2000). In press.
1999
FURTH, Charlotte. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History, 960-1665. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
HSU, Elisabeth. The Transmission of Chinese Medicine. Studies in Medical Anthropology Series, No. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
KURIYAMA, Shigehisa. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. New York: Zone Books, 1999.
LOW, Morris F. ed. "Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and South East Asia," Osiris 13 (November 1999). Available from University of Chicago PressMITCHELL, Craig; Feng Ye and Nigel Wiseman. Shang Han Lun (On Cold Damage); Translation and Commentaries. Brookline, MA: Paradigm Publications, 1999.
XU, Jian. "Body, Discourse, and the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Chinese Qigong." Journal of Asian Studies 58.4 (December 1999):961-991.
1998
CHANG, Che-chia. "The Therapeutic Tug of War -- The Imperial Physician-patient Relationship in the Era of Empress Dowager Cixi (1874-1908)." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1998.
HARPER, Donald John. Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series; Vol. 2. New York: Kegan Paul International, 1998.
HOWARD, Paul. "Opium Smoking in Qing China: Responses to a Social Problem, 1729-1906." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1998.
RAPHALS, Lisa. "The Treatment of Women in a Second-Century Medical Casebook." Chinese Science, 1998:7-28.
SCHEID, Volker. "Plurality and Synthesis in Contemporary Chinese Medicine." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1998. (Click here to see abstract.)
SHEA, Jeanne Laraine. "Revolutionary Women at Middle Age: An Ethnographic Survey of Menopause and Midlife Aging in Beijing, China." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1998.
YAMADA Keiji. The Origins of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Decoction. (Nichibunken Monograph Series No.1). Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1998
Wu, Yi-Li. "Transmitted Secrets: The Doctors of the Lower Yangzi Region and Popular Gynecology in Late Imperial China." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1998.
1996
ANDREWS, Bridie J. "The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1895-1937." Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge University, 1996.
CHANG, Chia-Feng, "Aspects of Smallpox and Its Significance in Chinese History." Ph.D. dissertation, University of London, 1996. (Click here to see abstract.)
GRANT, Joanna. "Wang Ji's _Shishan Yi'an_: Aspects of Gender and Culture in Ming Dynasty Medical Case Histories." Ph.D. dissertation, University of London, 1996.
ROGASKI, Ruth. "From Protecting the Body to Defending the Nation: The Emergence of Public Health in Tianjin, 1859-1953." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1996.
TIQUIA, Rey. "Connecting Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Scientific Medicine." M.Sc. Thesis, The University of Melbourne, l996. (Click here to see abstract.)
1995
CHAO, Yuan-ling . "Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China: A Study of Physicians in Suzhou." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995.
SHAPIRO, Hugh. "The View from a Chinese Asylum: Defining Madness in 1930s Peking." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1995.
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ABSTRACT:
This dissertation is a general survey of the history of smallpox in pre-modern China. It especially aims at exploring those important aspects which have not been thoroughly studied previously.
This dissertation contains five chapters discussing significant issues with regard to smallpox. In chapter one, I set out to investigate outbreaks of smallpox epidemics and the related mortality in pre-modern China. I also discuss the motivation and educational backgrounds of the medical professionals of the day, the interaction between physicians and their colleagues as well as the relationship between physicians and their patients. Editors and publishers of smallpox treatises are also taken into account.
In chapter two, discussion centres on concepts of smallpox etiology. Questions as to the emergence of new concepts associated with the origin of smallpox after the Song Dynasty, and the extent to which those presumptions differed from each other will be considered. In addition, ideas about how the Chinese understood the internal development of smallpox inside the body will also be examined.
In chapter three, by introducing the principles of medical treatment, we can see essential technical aspects of the treatment of smallpox. I will also look into social and cultural responses to this disease, including many alternative therapies, smallpox deities and the related rituals.
In chapter four, discussion focuses on legends, principles, practices and rituals of variolation; practitioners of variolation and the adoption and advocacy of Jennerian vaccination in the nineteenth century China.
In chapter five, I choose smallpox as a case to gauge the impact of disease on a given society in pre-modern times. This chapter highlights the influences of smallpox on the Manchus in terms of military affairs, society, politics and diplomacy in the early Qing Dynasty.
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ABSTRACT:
Adopting a new framework of science which sees knowledge as being generated from local practices and assuming life in specific contextual situations, the theory and practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is presented. A critique is made of past ways of scienticing TCM which in turn provided the basis for generating a new system of evaluating TCM practice. The local practice of proposing treatment principles in accordance with the differentiation of clinical patterns in Australia is reconstituted and a new concept of theory-as-practice is developed. TCM theory is seen as embedded in its practice. On the basis of this new concept on the theory and practice of TCM, the "Evaluation Template of the Eight Arrows Connecting Targets" is developed to interrogate the ' body 'of TCM practice.
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ABSTRACT:
My dissertation examines the problem of plurality and synthesis in contemporary Chinese medicine. It is based on 13 months' fieldwork studying as a post-graduate student at the University of Chinese Medicine in Beijing and on participant observation in various Beijing hospitals and clinics of Chinese medicine. Fieldwork data is supplemented by literature based studies of particular events or conceptual issues. The dissertation as a whole wishes to contribute both to the ethnography of Chinese medicine and to anthropological theories of cultural production and change.
By plurality in Chinese medicine, I refer to: (i) the existence of a multiplicity of research traditions, medical practices and theories, forms of knowledge transmission, types of social interactions and relations, etc. along both synchronic and diachronic planes; and (ii) the constitution of cultural forms (including that of subjects) as heterogeneous combinations of elements from different social and natural domains and from various historical periods and geographical areas. By synthesis, I mean to draw attention to the process(es) whereby the various elements that make up contemporary Chinese medicine are brought into relation with each other so as to form temporarily stable coherences.
I start from the observation that in spite of a wide-spread recognition of this plurality in the literature and its immediate appearance to even the casual observer, historical and social analyses of Chinese medicine invariably claim to uncover beyond such surface pluralities deeper systems of order. If these claims are critically examined, however, it becomes apparent that they are based on certain ubiquitous assumptions in post-Enlightenment discourse rather than on the nature of the facts reported or described. I trace these a priori expectations regarding the existence of deeper unities beneath obvious surface pluralities to the Kantian definition of the subject as a synthesising agent and its subsequent integration into comparative anthropology. Proceeding from this critique, my dissertation develops a dual impetus. First, to describe ethnographically the plurality of contemporary Chinese medicine in such a manner as to render visible the problematic nature of all attempts at reducing it to a product of a priori orders howsoever conceived. Second, to begin a process of anthropological analysis that can account in a non-reductive fashion for the coherences that can be observed.
The ethnographic chapters of my thesis analyse via the methodology of a case study approach various aspects of Chinese medicine in contemporary China. Case studies cover the following areas: (i) the institutional formation of Chinese medicine after 1949; (ii) changing patient presentations of being unwell and of using medical facilities; (iii) the adaptations of clinical practices and theoretical reflections on such practice by Chinese medical physicians - both individually and collectively - to changed socio-historical contexts; (iv) the adaptation and coexistence of various forms of knowledge transmission. These studies underline the reality of plurality along the two dimensions of multiplicity and heterogeneity. A third analytical tool - the concept of emergence - is introduced to allow for a non-reductive analysis of plurality. I argue (and support this argument by further case studies) that global coherences (or syntheses) of cultural forms emerge as consequences of the interactions of local infrastructures which possess agency and which include - besides the individual and corporative agents of conventional anthropology - also non-human entities. This argument is supported not only by my own research on Chinese medicine, but also by reference to studies in a number of other disciplines (such as sociological and cultural studies of science, cognitive science and social psychology). The inter-disciplinary connections thereby established within my own dissertation reflect the heterogeneous nature of contemporary Chinese medicine and become indispensable for its social scientific analysis.
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