Title: The Reception of Western Medicine in China: Examples from Yunnan
Abstract: Much has been written on the European and later mainly American activities that introduced Western medicine into China1. How this foreign practice was perceived and eventually accepted by the Chinese and how these forms of knowledge, grounded in Western science, were transformed by folk belief and practices of traditional professionals, is only mentioned briefly in the available literature. Chinese were probably not interested pointing out how Western medicine was modified, because they wished to stress progress and possibly foreign advocates of development were likewise not inclined to draw attention to the adulteration of cosmopolitan medicine with local practice.
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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