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Bates, Donald. 1995. _Knowledge and the scholarly medical traditions_. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Hashimoto, Keiji; Catherine Jami; and Lowell Skar, eds. 1995. _East Asian Science: Tradition and Beyond_. Papers from the Seventh International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Kyoto 2-7 August 1993. (Has many papers on medicine in China, Japan, and Korea.)
Jannetta, Ann. 1993. "Disease Ecologies in East Asia." In Kenneth Kiple, ed. _The Cambridge History and Geography of Human Disease_, pp. 476-482.
Kiple, Kenneth, ed. 1993. _The Cambridge History and Geography of Human Disease_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kleinman, Arthur et al., eds. 1975. _Medicine in Chinese Cultures: Comparative Studies in Health Care in China and Other Societies_. Washington, D.C.: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (Papers from a conference held in Seattle, February, 1974.)
____. 1977. _Culture and Healing in Asian Societies: Anthropological, Psychiatric and Public Health Studies_. Cambridge, Mass. Schenkman Publishing Company.
Kuriyama, Shigehisa. 1993. "Concepts of Disease in East Asia." In Kenneth Kiple, ed. _The Cambridge History and Geography of Human Disease_, pp. 52-59.
Laderman, Carol. 1991. _Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
____. 1983. _Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Leslie, Charles, ed. 1976. _Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study_. Berkeley: Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
____. 1980. "Medical Pluralism." _Social Science and Medicine_ 14B no. 4:191-296.
____. 1983. "New research on traditional medicine in South Asia." _Social Science and Medicine_ 17.14:933-989.
Leslie, Charles; Allan Young, eds. 1992. _Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge_. Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Lock, Margaret, and Deborah Gordon, eds. 1988. _Biomedicine Examined_. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
McElroy, Ann; Patricia K. Townsend, eds. 1996. _Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective_. Third Edition. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press.
Nichter, Mart, 1989. _Anthropology and International Health: South Asian Case Studies_. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Ogawa, Teizo, ed. 1986. _History of Traditional Medicine: Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Symposia on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West._ Osaka: Taniguchi Foundation, Division of Medical History. (One of several volumes with papers on Chinese medicine but few are comparative.)
Rechung, Rinpoche. 1976. _Tibetan Medicine: Illustrated in Original Texts Presented and Translated by the Venerable Rechung Rinpoche Jampal Kunzang_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Roseman, Marina. 1991. _Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; and Margaret Lock. 1989. "The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology." _Medical Anthropology Quarterly_, 1:6-41.
Ullman, Manfred. 1978. _Islamic Medicine_. Islamic Surveys II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Zimmerman, Francis. 1987. _The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Zysk, Kenneth Gregory. 1985. _Religious Healing in the Veda, with Translations and Annotations of Medical Hymns from the Rgveda and the Atharvaveda._ Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
____. 1991. _Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India. Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery_. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Agren, Hans. 1986. "Chinese Traditional Medicine: Temporal Order and Synchronous Events." In J.T. Fraser, N. Lawrence, and F.C. Haber, eds. _Time, Science, and Society in China and the West: The Study of Time_ 5, pp. 211-18. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts.
____. 1982. "The Conceptual History of Psychiatric Terms in Traditional Chinese Medicine." In Li Guohao et al eds., _Explorations in the History of Science and Technology in China_, pp. 573-581.
____. 1977. "Empiricism and Speculation in Traditional East Asian Medicine." _Nihon ishigaku zasshi_. 23.2:300-317 (4-21).
____. 1975. "Patterns of Tradition and Modernization in Contemporary Chinese Medicine." In Kleinman et al, eds. _Medicine in Chinese Cultures_.
Ames, Roger T. 1984. "The Meaning of Body in Classical Chinese Thought." _International Philosophical Quarterly_ 24.1:39-54.
Anagost, Ann. 1988. "Family violence and magical violence: the woman as victim in China’s one-child family policy." _Women and Language_ XI.2:16-22.
Ahern, Emily. 1975. "Sacred and Secular Medicine in a Taiwan Village: A Study of Cosmological Disorders." In Kleinman et al, _Medicine in Chinese Cultures_.
____. 1975. "Power and Pollution of Chinese Women." In Margery Wolf and Roxane Witke, eds. _Women in Chinese Society_. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 193-214.
Andrews, Bridie. 1996. _The Making of Chinese Medicine, 1895-1937_. Ph.D., Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
____. 1991. "Wang Qingren and the history of Chinese anatomy." _Journal of Chinese Medicine_ 36 (May):30-36.
Benedict, Carol. 1996. _Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China_. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
____. 1996. "Framing Plague in China’s Past." In Gail Hershatter, et al. eds., _Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain_, pp. 27-41. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
____. 1993. "Policing the Sick: Plague and the Origins of State Medicine in Late Imperial China." _Late Imperial China_ 14.2: 60-77.
____. 1988. "Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China." _Modern China_ 14.2:107-55.
Bowers, John Z.; J. William Hess; Nathan Sivin, eds. 1988. _Science and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Research and Education. Science, Medicine, & Technology in East Asia series, vol. 3. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Chinese Studies.
Bray, Francesca. 1995. "A deathly disorder: understanding women’s health in late imperial China." In Don Bates, ed., _Knowledge and the scholarly medical traditions_, pp. 235-250.
____. 1994. "Meanings of motherhood: reproductive technologies and their uses in Late Imperial China." Paper presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population workshop on abortion and infanticide. Kyoto. October.
____. 1993. "Chinese medicine." In W.F. Bynum, and Roy Porter, eds., _Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine_ I:728-54. London/New York: Routledge.
____. 1990. "Abortion in China 1600-1900: Ethics and Identity." Unpublished paper presented at the 6th International Conference of the History of Science in China, Cambridge, England, August
Cass, Victoria. 1986. "Female Healers in the Ming and the Lodge of Ritual and Ceremony." _Journal of the American Oriental Society_ 106,1(January-March 1986):233-240. (Female medical personnel in the Ming court)
Chang, Chia-feng. 1995. "Strategies of Dealing with Smallpox in the Early Qing Imperial Family (1633-1799)." In Hashimoto, Jami, and Skar eds., _East Asian Science: Tradition and Beyond, pp. 199-206.
Chen, C.C. 1989. _Medicine in Rural China: A Personal Account_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Chiu, Martha Li. 1981. "Insanity in Imperial China. A Legal Case Study." In Kleinman & Lin ed. 1981, pp. 75-94.
____. 1986. _Mind, Body, and Illness in a Chinese Medical Tradition_. Ph.D. dissertation, History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University.
Croizier, Ralph. 1976. "The Ideology of Medical Revivalism in Modern China." From Charles Leslie, ed., _Asian Medical Systems_.
Cullen, Christopher. 1993. "Patients and Healers in Late Imperial China: Evidence from the _Jinpingmei_." _History of Science_, vol. 31, 2: 99-150.
Despeux, Catherine. 1990. _Immortelles de la Chine Ancienne: Taoisme et alchimie feminine_. Paris: Pardes.
DeWoskin, Kenneth, translator. 1983. _Doctors, Diviners, and Magicians of Ancient China: Biographies of Fang-shi_. New York: Columbia University Press.
Dungeon, John. 1877. _The Diseases of China their Causes, Conditions, and Prevalence Contrasted with those of Europe_. Glasgow: Dunn & Wright.
Dunstan, Helen. 1975. "The Late Ming Epidemics: A Preliminary Survey. " _Ch’ing shih wen-t’i_ 3.3:1-59.
Elvin, Mark, et al. eds. 1980. "Symposium: The Work of Joseph Needham." _Past and Present_ 87:17-53.
Epler, D.C. 1980. "Bloodletting in early Chinese medicine and its relation to the origin of acupuncture." _Bulletin of the History of Medicine_ 54:337-67.
____. 1988. "The Concept of Disease in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text, The Discourse on Cold-Damage Disorders (_Shang-han Lun_)." _The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences_ 43.2:8-35.
Farquhar, Judith. 1996. "‘Medicine and the Changes are One’: An Essay in Divination Healing with Commentary." _Chinese Science_ 13:107-134.
____. 1995. "Re-writing traditional medicine in post-Maoist China." In Don Bates, ed., _Knowledge and the scholarly medical traditions_, pp. 251-276.
____. 1994. _Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine. Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination_. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press.
____. 1994. "Multiplicity, Point of View, and Responsibility in Traditional Chinese Healing." In Angela Zito and Tani E. Barlow eds., _Body, Subject, & Power in China_, pp. 78-99. Chicago: University of Chicago.
____. 1992. "Time and Text: Approaching Chinese Medical Practice through Analysis of a Published Case." In Leslie and Young, eds., _Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge_, pp. 62-73.
____. 1992. "Rewriting traditional medicine in post-Maoist China." Paper presented at the Conference on Epistemology and the Scholarly Medical Traditions, Montreal, 13-16 May.
____. 1991. "Objects, Processes, and Female Infertility in Chinese Medicine." _Medical Anthropology Quarterly (NS)_ 5.4 (December):370-399.
____. 1990-1991. "Body Contingency and Healing Power in Traditional Chinese Medicine." _Discours Social/Social Discourse_ 3.304:3-70.
____. 1988. "Speech, Text, and Silence: Text Production and the Unsaid in the Contemporary Practice of Chinese Medicine." Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on the History of Science in China, San Diego, California, August 5-10.
____. 1987. "Problems of Knowledge in Contemporary Chinese Medical Discourse." _Social Science and Medicine_ 24.12:1013-1021.
____. 1986. _Knowledge and Practice in Chinese Medicine_. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago.
Fisher, Carney T. 1988. "Smallpox, Salesmen, and Sectarians: Ming-Mongol Relations in the Jiajing Reign (1522-67)." _Ming Studies_ 25:1-23.
Furth, Charlotte. 1996. "From Birth to Birth: the Growing Body in Chinese Medicine." In Anne Behnke Kinney, ed., _Chinese Views of Childhood_, pp.157-192.
____. 1994. "Rethinking Van Gulik: sexuality and reproduction in traditional Chinese medicine." In Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White, eds. _Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State_, pp. 125-46. Berkeley: University of California Press.
____. 1990. "Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Anthropology of Menstruation in Contemporary Taiwan." Unpublished paper.
____. 1989. "Kinship, Class, and Gender in Ch’ing Dynasty Medical Cases." Unpublished manuscript.
____. 1988. "Androgynous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China." _Late Imperial China_. 9.2:1- 31.
____. 1987. "Concepts of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infancy in Ch’ing Dynasty China." _The Journal of Asian Studies_ 46.1:7-35.
____. 1986. "Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China, 1600-1850." _Chinese Science_ 7:43-66.
Hanson, Marta. 1995. "Merchants of Medicine: Huizhou mercantile consciousness, morality, and medical patronage in seventeenth-century China." In Hashimoto, et al., eds., _East Asian Science: Tradition and Beyond_, pp. 207-14.
Harper, Donald J. 1982. "The ‘Wu Shih Erh Ping Fang’: Translation and Prolegomena." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley.
____. 1987. "The Sexual Arts of Ancient China as Described in a Manuscript of the Second Century B.C." _Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies_ 47.2:539-593
Hay, John. 1983a. "Arterial art." _Stone Lion Review_ 11:70-84.
____. 1983b. "The human body as microcosmic source for macrocosmic values in calligraphy." In Susan Bush and Christian Murck ed., _Theories of the Arts in China_, pp. 74-103. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Henriot, Christian. 1992. "Medicine, VD and Prostitution in Pre-Revolutionary China." _Social History of Medicine_ 5.1: 95-120
Ho, Peng-yoke; F.P. Lisowski. 1993. _Concepts of Chinese Science and Traditional Healing Arts: A Historical Review_. Singapore: World Scientific.
Hoizey, Dominique and Marie-Joseph. 1993. _A History of Chinese Medicine_. Translated by Paul Bailey. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Hsu, Elisabeth. 199. "The reception of Western medicine in China: examples from Yunnan." In P. Petitjean, et al. eds., _Science and Empires_, pp. 89-101. Amsterdam: Kluwer.
Hymes, Robert. 1987. "Not Quite Gentlemen? Doctors in Sung and Yuan." _Chinese Science_ 8:9-76.
Idema, Wilt. 1977. "Diseases and Doctors, Drugs and Cures: A Very Preliminary List of Passages of Medical Interest in a Number of Traditional Novels and Related Plays." _Chinese Science_ 2:37-63.
Katz, Paul. 1995. _Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang_. SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies. Albany: SUNY Press.
____. 1987. "Demons or Deities: the _Wangye_ of Taiwan." _Asian Folklore Studies_48.2:
Keegan, David. 1990. _The Forms of a Tradition: The Structure and History of the Huang-ti nei-ching_. Ph.D. dissertation, History, University of California, Berkeley.
Kinney, Anne Behnke, ed. 1996. _Chinese Views of Childhood_. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Klein, Heinz. 1987. _Les Théories Hermétiques de la Médicine Traditionnelle en Chine: Recherches sur la vie et l’oeuvre de Chang Chieh-pin médicin-philosphe de l’époque des Ming_. Paris: Dervy-Livres.
Kleinman, Arthur. 1988. _The Illness Narratives: Suffering, healing, and the human condition_. New York: Basic Books.
____. 1986. _Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China_. New Haven; London: Yale University Press.
____. 1980. _Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry_. Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care no. 3. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
____; and Tsung-yi Lin, eds. 1981. _Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture_. (Culture, Illness, and Healing. Studies in Comparative Cross-Cultural Research, 2). Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company.
Kohn, Livia, ed. 1989. _Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques_. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, Vol. 61.
Kuriyama, Shigehisa. 1994. "The Imagination of Winds and the Development of the Chinese Conception of the Body." In Angela Zito and Tani E. Barlow eds., _Body, Subject, & Power in China_, pp. 23-41. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
____. 1995. "Visual Knowledge in Classical Chinese Medicine." In Don Bates, ed., _Knowledge and the scholarly medical traditions_, pp. 205-234.
____. 1987. "Pulse Diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese Traditions." In Yosio Kawakita, ed. _History of Diagnostics_, pp. 43-67. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West. Osaka: Taniguchi Foundation.
Leung, Angela Ki Che. 1996. "Relief Institutions for Children in Nineteenth-Century China." In Anne Behnke Kinney, ed., _Chinese Views of Childhood_, pp. 251-278.
____. 1987. "Organized Medicine in Ming-Qing China: State and Private Medical Institutions in the Lower Yangzi Region." _Late Imperial China_ 8.1:134-66.
____. 1984. "Autour de la naissance: la mère et l’enfant en Chine aux XIVe et XVIIe si"cles." _Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie_ 76.
Levi, Jean. 1989. "The body: the Daoist coat of arms." In Michele Feher, ed., _Fragments for a History of the Human Body_, pp. 105-26. New York: Zone.
Li Guohao et al. eds. 1982. _Explorations in the History of Science and Technology in China_. In honor of the eightieth birthday of Dr. Joseph Needham. Shanghai Chinese Classics Publishing House.
Li -yuan. 1976. "Shamanism in Taiwan: an Anthropological Inquiry." In William P. Lebra, ed. _Culture-bound Syndromes, Ethnopsychiatry, and Alternative Therapies_, pp. X-X.
Lu Dong; Ma Xi; and François Thahn, eds. 1995. _Les maux épidémiques dans l’empire chinois_. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan.
Lu Gwei-djen and Joseph Needham. 1986. _Celestial Lancets: A History & Rationale of Acupuncture & Moxa_. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Ma, Kanwen. 1983. "Obstetrics in Ancient China." _Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine, East and West_.
Martin, Katherine Gould. 1975. "Medical Systems in a Taiwan Village: Ong-ie-kong, the Plague God as Modern Physician." In Kleinman et al, eds., _Medicine in Chinese Cultures_.
Miyasita, Saburo. 1967. "A Link in the Westward Transmission of Chinese Anatomy in the Later Middle Ages." _Isis_ 58.4:486-90. Reprinted in Sivin 1977:200-204.
Needham, Joseph, et al. 1959 to present. _Science and Civilisation in China_. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
____; Lu Gwei-djen; Ho Peng-Yoke. 1970. _Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West: Lectures and Addresses on the History of Science and Technology_. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Includes five essays on the social background of Chinese medicine: "Medicine and Chinese Culture" (pp. 263-293), "Proto-endocrinology in Medieval China" (pp. 294-315), "Hygiene and Preventive Medicine in Ancient China" (pp. 340-378), "China and the Origin of Qualifying Examinations in Medicine" (pp. 379- 395).
____; and Lu Gwei-djen. 1967. "Records of Diseases in Ancient China." In Don Brothwell and A. T. Sandison, eds., _Diseases in Antiquity_ (Springfield, Ill: Charles C. Thomas), pp. 222-37.
Ots, Thomas. 1990. "The angry liver, the anxious heart and the melancholy spleen: the phenomenology of perceptions in Chinese culture." _Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry_ 14:21-58.
Pillsbury, Barbara L.K. 1978. "‘Doing the Month’: Confinement and Convalescence of Chinese Women after Childbirth." _Soc. Sci. & Med_. 12:11-22.
Porkert, Manfred. 1982. "The Difficult Task of Blending Chinese and Western Science: The Case of Modern Interpretations of Traditional Chinese Medicine." In Li Guohao et al eds., pp. 553-572.
____. 1977. "Epistemological Fashions in Interpreting Disease." _Nihon ishigaku zasshi_, 23, 1:1-18.
____. 1974. _The Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Systems of Correspondence_. MIT East Asian Science series, vol. 3. Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press.
____; and Christian Ullmann. 1982. _Chinese Medicine as a Scientific System: Its History, Philosophy and Practice, and How it Fits with the Medicine of the West_. Translated and adapted by Mark Howson. New York: An Owl Book Henry Holt and Company.
Potter, Jack M. 1974. "Cantonese shamanism." In Arthur Wolf, ed., _Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society_ (Stanford University Press) pp. 207-31.
Schipper, Kristofer. 1993. _The Taoist Body_. Translated by Karen C. Duval. Berkeley: University of California Press. Original, _Le corps taoiste_. Paris: Fayard, 1982.
____. 1978. "The Taoist Body." _History of Religions_ 17:355-386.
____. 1985. "Seigneurs royaux, deux des epidemies." _Archives de sciences sociales des religions_ 59.1:31-40.
Sivin, Nathan. 1995. "Text and experience in classical Chinese medicine." In Don Bates, ed., _Knowledge and the scholarly medical traditions_, pp. 177-204.
____. 1993. "Huang-ti nei ching" In Michael Loewe, ed. _Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide_ Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, pp. 196-215.
____. 1988. "Science and Medicine in Imperial China - The State of the Field." _Journal of Asian Studies_ 47.1: 41-90.
____. 1987. "Introductory Study." Essay in _Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China_, pp. 3-202. Science, Medicine, and Technology in East Asia series, vol. 2. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies.
____. 1978. "On the Word ‘Taoist’ as a Source of Perplexity. With Special Reference to the Relations of Science and Religion in Traditional China." _History of Religions_ 17: 303-330.
____. 1977. "Social Relations of Curing in Traditional China: Preliminary Considerations." _Nihon ishigaku zasshi_ 23.4: 505-532 [1-28].
____. 1973. "Li Shih-chen." In Charles C. Gillispie ed., _Dictionary of Scientific Biography_, pp. 390-398. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Skar, Lowell. 1995. "Ethical Aspects of Daoist Healing: The Case of Song and Yuan Thunder Rites." In Hashimoto et al., eds., _East Asian Science: Tradition and Beyond_, pp. 221-229.
Strickmann, Michel. 1979. "On the Alchemy of T’ao Hung-ching." In Holmes Welch and Anna K. Seidel, eds., _Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion_, pp. 123-192. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Thompson, Lawrence G. 1990. "Medicine and Religion in late Ming China." _Journal of Chinese Religions_ 18:45-59.
Topley, Margaret. 1974. "Cosmic antagonism: A mother-child syndrome." In Arthur P. Wolf, ed., _Religions and Ritual in Chinese Society_ (Stanford University Press), pp. 233-44.
____. 1970. "Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong Kong." _Man_ 5, no. 3.
____. 1963. "Chinese traditional etiology and methods of cure in Hong Kong," In Charles Leslie, ed. (1963): 243-71.
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Unschuld, Paul U. 1987. "Traditional Chinese Medicine: Some Historical and Epistemological Reflections." _Social Science and Medicine_, 24, 12: X-X.
____. 1986. _Medicine in China. A History of Pharmaceutics_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
____. 1985. _Medicine in China. A History of Ideas_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
____. 1980. "Concepts of Illness in Ancient China: the Case of Demonological Medicine." _Journal of Medicine and Philosophy_ 5, 2:117-32.
____. 1979. _Medical Ethics in Imperial China: a Study in Historical Anthropology_. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Yamada Keiji. 1979. "The Formation of the Huang-ti nei-ching." _Acta Asiatica_, Special Issue: Studies in the History of Chinese Science, 36:67-89.
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Adas, Michael. 1989. _Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology,
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Bullock, Mary Brown. 1980. _An American Transplant: the Rockefeller
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_Bulletin de l’Université l’Aurore_, Serie III, 5.3:671-684.
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____. 1980. "Christian and Chinese Visions of the World in the
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Harvard.
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Elite_.
Toronto/ Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press.
____. 1987. "The Multiplication of Ourselves: Canadian Medical
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Swislocki, Mark. 1992. "The Politics of Health in Nineteenth-Century
China: The
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Bachelor’s Thesis,
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Tucker, Sara. 1990. "Opportunities for Women: The Development of
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____. 1982. "Science, Medicine, and Public Health in Twentieth-Century
China:
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Western Medicine in China
Translations of Chinese Medical Texts
Transcribed from a seminar organized by Peter Firebrace (series
editor)
for the International Register of Oriental Medicine (UK), 1985-87. Others
in same series
include _The Liver_ (1994), _Heart Master, Triple Heater_ (1992), _The Heart
in Ling
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Kidneys_ (1989), and _The Way of Heaven: Su Wen Chapters 1 and
2_.
Chinese Materia Medica and Botany
Traditional Chinese Medicine: popular introductions to practice
Traditional Chinese Medicine: clinical textbooks for practitioners
T'ai Chi Ch'uan translated texts and practice
Journals and Newsletters of Interest
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