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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 19 (1): 75–77.
Published: 01 November 1959
...John L. Rawlinson Plague Fighter, The Autobiography of a Modern Chinese Physician . By Wu Lien-teh . Cambridge, England : W. Heffer & Sons , 1959 . x, 667 . Illustrations, Index, 30\-. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 75 groups...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (3): 460–461.
Published: 01 May 1956
...John D. Montgomery Hiroshima Diary, the Journal of a Japanese Physician (August 6-September 30,1945) . Trans, and ed., Warner Wells . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1955 . xi , 238. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 460 FAR...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 442–443.
Published: 01 May 2005
... reforms in the late Qing dynasty and of the Republican revolution of 1911 as well as a local history of southern Manchuria. EDWARD RHOADS University of Texas at Austin A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories. By JOANNA GRANT. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 6 (1): 89–90.
Published: 01 November 1946
...Sidney D. Gamble Doctors east, doctors west. An American physician's life in China . By Edward H. Hume . New York : W. W. Norton & Co. , 1946 . 278 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 89 agency through which the citizens...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 429–430.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Tawni Tidwell Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform . By Theresia Hofer . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . xv, 286 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 In Medicine and Memory in Tibet , Theresia Hofer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 541–543.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Anne Burkus-Chasson Learning from Mt. Hua: A Chinese Physician's Illustrated Travel Record and Painting Theory . By Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb . RES Monographs on Anthropology and Aesthetics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1993 . xiv, 229 pp. $75.00. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 579–588.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and postwar establishment of the World Health Organization; Cold War medical diplomacy; and Chinese models of primary health care during the 1970s. These case studies together show that Chinese physicians and administrators helped shape concepts and practices of “global health” even before that term rose...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 845–853.
Published: 01 November 1993
... ethnographer without any special claim to “ethnographic authority.” On that occasion, some one thousand citizens from the region gathered in Hachinohe to celebrate the 290th anniversary of the birth of Andō Shōeki (1703–62), the provocative eighteenth-century thinker and physician who practiced in this former...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 363–387.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Frances Garrett Abstract This paper addresses the development of scholastic medical traditions in Tibet through an examination of lists of physicians. I consider the debates that such lists and their accompanying narratives engender for Tibetan historians and reflect on the contributions they make...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 237–238.
Published: 01 February 2020
... beginning of Nurturing Indonesia , Hans Pols asks a deceptively simple question: why did Indies physicians occupy such a dominant role in the nationalist movement? Unlike several historians who have portrayed colonial medicine as a tool of empire, Pols critically examines the prosopographies of individual...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1108–1109.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and respiratory illnesses to high fevers and epidemic diseases” (p. 10). The book traces the changing ways in which literati physicians wrote about wenbing and its geographical associations, from the compilation of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon ( Huangdi neijing ) two thousand years ago to the SARS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1165–1186.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of China used to call the Indian kings as the kings of wisdom because of their great interest in the science” (1959, 34). He elaborates on Harun al Rashid's interest in expanding the range of medical knowledge, as well as the story of Pandit Mankah's appointment as court physician, and notes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 461–462.
Published: 01 February 1971
... was visited by five European physicians, all associated with the Dutch East India Company, the only traders then legally allowed to deal with the island empire. In succeeding chapters, Dr. Bowers presents detailed biographies of Willem Ten Rhijne, Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Pieter Thunberg, P. F. B. Siebald...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 229–231.
Published: 01 February 2020
... century, French physicians working in French Indochina were convinced that mental illness did not constitute a problem requiring an official response. As a disease of civilization, they thought mental illness would not affect the great majority of the indigenous population of Vietnam and adjacent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 August 1982
.... Sigerist, himself a physician, once wrote the following prescription: The history of medicine differs basically from most other historical disciplines that examine happenings and phenomena which occurred once, because it is the history of a craft, of techniques, and skills. We therefore want to know...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 830–831.
Published: 01 November 2006
.... Her work builds on Japanese research over the past thirty years that has taken a social-historical approach in its analysis of medicine and intellect in rural areas of Japan. Nakamura effectively makes her case by focusing on a group of physicians in the Ko¯zuke region west of the Kanto plain. Takano...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1009–1034.
Published: 01 November 2017
... “apparent” to Chinese elites and commoners alike it was necessary to attach it to the political power of the state. Although he and his Japanese- and German-trained group of physicians believed that anatomical medicine was absolutely true and Chinese medicine false, they were explicit in acknowledging...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 423–424.
Published: 01 February 1971
.... The discussions on the qualifying examination for physicians (ch. 18) and preventive medicine (ch. 17) are of historical as well as technical interest; occasionally, however, the summaries of institutional history tend to be too sweeping: the "mandarinate examinations" system itself, for example, cannot be said...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (2): 148–157.
Published: 01 February 1945
... hospitals mostly operated by religious orders, while most of the physicians were recruited in Spain. Not until the establishment of the San Jose Medical College at the Santo Tomas University in 1871 were the Filipinos given a chance to become physicians. Neither the physicians nor the Spanish government...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 221–223.
Published: 01 February 2017
... for a wider audience. Gyatso traces a series of “double movements” between scientific and religious approaches to knowledge formation in these debates, arguing that Tibetan physicians’ concern with everyday matters of life and death gave rise to a “medical mentality” or a critical stance toward an ideal...