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...Marta Hanson Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Robust Northerners and Delicate Southerners: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of a Southern Medical Tradition Marta Hanson In what ways did the Chinese conceptualize human diversity before...

...Laikwan Pang Exploring the visual representations of the barefoot doctors in China's Cultural Revolution, this article demonstrates how a medical policy is visualized and politicized, and it also shows how the visual culture of the time was richer than it has been assumed. This article meanders...

...Ming-cheng M. Lo 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Between Ethnicity and Modernity: Taiwanese Medical Students and Doctors under Japan’s K¯ominka Campaign, 1937–1945 Ming-cheng M. Lo In the Absence of the “Color Code” Although interdisciplinary scholarship...

...Xiaopei He; Lisa Rofel This essay addresses how and why people in China create an identity out of their medical status of having HIV/AIDS. The essay argues that contrary to the idea that “coming out” as HIV-positive might be liberating, the experience of being “pushed out” by many people who...

...Tim Shao-Hung Teng Abstract This article situates Lu Xun at the intersection of late‐Qing folkloric discourse and medical science by studying his 1925 essay “Lun zhaoxiang zhilei” (“On Photography”). “On Photography” is a rich yet enigmatic piece of writing that has yet to receive critical...

...Winnie Won Yin Wong This article explores the correspondences between Lu Xun's famous “lantern slide moment” at Sendai Medical Academy in Japan in 1906, and the Visualizing Cultures student protest at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006. In both incidents, wartime images of Japanese...

... needs children have been placed in foreign homes. This article highlights the efforts that take place in China to transform unwanted disabled and ill children into internationally desirable daughters and sons. I draw upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork in four medical foster homes in China run...

... mothers in mass media. Migrant mothers in the urban villages of China have learned and internalized this ideology of intensive mothering along with their rural-to-urban migration through reading and interactions with medical and educational experts. Based on eight months of ethnographic research in two...

... an observationalparticipatory film, Seishin responds to the sociopolitical climates of the late 2000s, especially the Japanese government’s reforms of health and medical services. Specifically, two laws were enacted while the film was in production: the 2005 Support for Independence of Persons with Disability (SIPD) Act...

... gone beyond textual analysis of Chinese medical canons to examine the dialectical relationship between medical texts and embodied experience in the processes of learning and practicing Chinese medicine.1 Anthropologist Judith Farquhar goes so far...

..., and indi- cate where the field can go if it overcomes its double parochiality. Medical History The history of medicine took new directions late in the nineteenth century as physicians canvassed the past to map the march of medical...

..., then at Culion, public-health officers from the United States organized the rig- orous segregation of any afflicted local inhabitants. While the criteria for exile at Molokai had initially been clinical, by the end of the century the medical...

... the plastic surgery industry is supported by the South Korean government's medical tourism initiatives and informally promoted through the global cultural products of hallyu 한류 (the Korean wave), to analyze its discourse is to unpack the close-knit political economy of medical patriarchy, global media...

... it re ected her ongoing concern about being infertile in Vietnam where the treatment context neccesitated her tak- ing risks with fertility treatments despite her lack of faith in the quality of the medical service. In I...

.... Operable only in those military and naval dis- tricts identified by the statute, the acts made women prostitutes but not their customers liable to medical examination and detention. Women sus- pected of prostitution were subject to arrest...

... and occupied a contested and unstable ground. Perhaps the moral freight attaching to medical positivism- the widely held view that only scientifically verifiable knowledge is an ethical foundation for clinical intervention-has led...

... and the new modern hospital, suggests a disproportionate con- centration on the malady. This essay seeks to elucidate the sources of this puzzling preoccupation. How should we interpret the prominence of spermatorrhea in the medical...

..., and traditional Chinese medical books, it rapidly became clear that every point of view was available in these materials.2 Magazine tables of contents, for example, discourage one immediately from taking any article too seriously. For every article...

... for the early detection of fetal abnormalities in Delhi’s premier state- ­run research hospital, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), its use subsequently spread to the obstetrics and gynecology departments of private urban medical...