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The AMS/Paterson Lecture: Becoming Alternative? Modern Transformations of Chinese Medicine in China and in the United States
Abstract
"Becoming Alternative" offers an overview of the transformations of Chinese medicine at home and abroad since the mid-19th century. After coming into contact with biomedicine, China's indigenous medicine was redefined in terms of national culture and history on the one hand, and a competitive alternative science on the other. Reimagined in terms of scientific syncretism in the PRC, and embraced as a counter-cultural alternative to bio-medicine in the United States, the medicine we call "Chinese" today emerges as a pluralistic system with global reach involving complex accommodations with local medical cultures and institutions both at home and abroad.
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- Authors
- Furth, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Furth, Charlotte
- Venue
- Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
- Published
- 2011-04
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-41
- ISSN
- 0823-2105 (ISSN-L)
- 2371-0179
- OpenAlex
- W1502092046
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2022: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Canadian Journal of Health History (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Medicine Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › History of Science and Medicine
- Keywords
- traditional Chinese medicine, modernization of traditional medicine, biomedicine, complementary and alternative medicine, United States, medical pluralism, history of medicine
- MeSH terms
- Complementary Therapies, China, Culture, Humans, Medicine, Chinese Traditional, United States, History, 20th Century
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