Eastern & Western Medicine Meet: Conflicts of Science, Health and Tradition in Modern China & Japan

This short lecture examines interactions and conflicts between traditional Chinese medicine and newly-arrived ideas of Western medicine in China and Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sources used: Andrews, Bridie. The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014. Bowers, John and Elizabeth Purcell. Medicine and Society in China. New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1974. Connor, Linda, and Geoffrey Samuel. Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2001. Marie, Eric and Will Thornely. “The Transmission and Practice of Chinese Medicine: An Overview and Outlook.“ China Perspectives 87 (2011): 5-13. Nakamura, Ellen. Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. Selin, Helaine and Hugh Shapiro. Medicine across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Culture