The AMS/Paterson Lecture: Becoming Alternative? Modern Transformations of Chinese Medicine in China and in the United States | Zendy

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The AMS/Paterson Lecture: Becoming Alternative? Modern Transformations of Chinese Medicine in China and in the United States

Author(s) -

Charlotte Furth

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

canadian journal of health history

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 2371-0179

pISSN - 0823-2105

DOI - 10.3138/cbmh.28.1.5

Subject(s) - china , biomedicine , indigenous , syncretism (linguistics) , traditional medicine , political science , medicine , law , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , genetics , biology

Becoming Alternative offers an overview of the transformations of Chinese medicine at home and abroad since the mid-19th century. After coming into contact with biomedicine, China's indigenous medicine was redefined in terms of national culture and history on the one hand, and a competitive alternative science on the other. Reimagined in terms of scientific syncretism in the PRC, and embraced as a counter-cultural alternative to bio-medicine in the United States, the medicine we call "Chinese" today emerges as a pluralistic system with global reach involving complex accommodations with local medical cultures and institutions both at home and abroad.

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