Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History

The reader can follow this thread through discussions of the influence of new conceptions of imperial order on the imagination of disease and healing during the Han, the significant attempts of the Song to regulate medical knowledge and practice, declining state involvement in medicine under the Ming and Qing, and the unprecedented forms of medical regulation that have emerged since the fall of the Qing and, especially, since the 1950s. While images are used to enliven the chapters more generally, there are several cases in which authors' detailed analyses of particular images really demonstrate the kinds of insights that visual analysis can provide for the history of medicine. [...]readers who are pursuing the many personal, professional, and practice-oriented endeavors that constitute "Chinese medicine and healing" at the start of the 21st century will find a treatment of the subject that is both historically cally grounded and attentive to the present-day configurations of knowledge edge and practice that continue to heterogeneous field.