Book review of Marta Hanson. Speaking of Epidemics: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China. London and New York: Routledge, Needham Research Institute Series. 265p.dans East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, (2012) 6(4), p. 585-588 - CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique Accéder directement au contenu
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Book review of Marta Hanson. Speaking of Epidemics: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China. London and New York: Routledge, Needham Research Institute Series. 265p.dans East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, (2012) 6(4), p. 585-588

Florence Bretelle-Establet
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Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicineis the latest book by Marta Hanson, historian of Chinese science and medicine at the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. This book draws on her PhD dissertation and on the many research projects that have followed it. It explores the Chinese medical discourse on epidemics in Chinese history and highlights the changes and bifurcations of this discourse elaborated not only in the face of a changing epidemiological reality but also of shifting political, social, economic, and cultural realities which have always played a significant part in the conceptualization of the body and its ailments. To capture the different tenets of this discourse, Hanson focuses on one disease concept, “warm disease” (wenbing温病), that Chinese authors linked to epidemics in the most ancient medical texts and examines how the diseases associated with this label have been considered, treated, and described by the Chinese doctors throughout Chinese history.

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Florence Bretelle-Establet. Book review of Marta Hanson. Speaking of Epidemics: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China. London and New York: Routledge, Needham Research Institute Series. 265p.dans East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, (2012) 6(4), p. 585-588. 2012. ⟨hal-01505886⟩
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