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by David Luesink, William H. Schneider, Zhang Daqing (ed.), Daniel Asen, Gao Xi, He Xiaolian, Li Shenglan, Mary Augusta Brazelton, Nicole Barnes, Shi Yan, Yu Xinzhong
Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center
of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the peripheryToday China is a major player in
advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether
medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China.
This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized
biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China’s "e;Century of
Humiliation"e; when imperialist powers dominated China’s foreign policy and economy,
forcing it to join global trends that included limited public health measures in the
nineteenth century and government-sponsored healthcare in the twentieth. These external
pressures, combined with a vast population immiserated by imperialism and the decline of the
Chinese traditional economy, created extraordinary problems for biomedicine that were both
unique to China and potentially applicable to other developing nations. In this book,
scholars based in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom make the case that
developments in biomedicine in China such as the discovery of new diseases, the opening of
the medical profession to women, the mass production of vaccines, and the delivery
ofhealthcare to poor rural areas should be at the center of our understanding of
biomedicine, not at the periphery. CONTRIBUTORS: Daniel Asen, Nicole Barnes, Mary Augusta
Brazelton, Gao Xi , He Xiaolian, Li Shenglan, David Luesink, William H. Schneider, Shi Yan,
Yu Xinzhong, DAVID LUESINK is Assistant Professor of History at Sacred Heart University.
WILLIAM H. SCHNEIDER is Professor Emeritus of History and Medical Humanities at Indiana
University Purdue University Indianapolis. ZHANG DAQING is Professor and Director, Institute
of Medical Humanities at Peking University in Beijing.
of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the peripheryToday China is a major player in
advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether
medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China.
This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized
biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China’s "e;Century of
Humiliation"e; when imperialist powers dominated China’s foreign policy and economy,
forcing it to join global trends that included limited public health measures in the
nineteenth century and government-sponsored healthcare in the twentieth. These external
pressures, combined with a vast population immiserated by imperialism and the decline of the
Chinese traditional economy, created extraordinary problems for biomedicine that were both
unique to China and potentially applicable to other developing nations. In this book,
scholars based in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom make the case that
developments in biomedicine in China such as the discovery of new diseases, the opening of
the medical profession to women, the mass production of vaccines, and the delivery
ofhealthcare to poor rural areas should be at the center of our understanding of
biomedicine, not at the periphery. CONTRIBUTORS: Daniel Asen, Nicole Barnes, Mary Augusta
Brazelton, Gao Xi , He Xiaolian, Li Shenglan, David Luesink, William H. Schneider, Shi Yan,
Yu Xinzhong, DAVID LUESINK is Assistant Professor of History at Sacred Heart University.
WILLIAM H. SCHNEIDER is Professor Emeritus of History and Medical Humanities at Indiana
University Purdue University Indianapolis. ZHANG DAQING is Professor and Director, Institute
of Medical Humanities at Peking University in Beijing.
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