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Papers by Bridie Andrews
Choice Reviews Online, 2015
Medical History, Oct 1, 2010
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2006
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2015
This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator ... more This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator Ding Fubao 丁福保 (1874-1952). Ding’s career as an early adopter and translator of scientific medicine, and as a broker between western-trained physicians and reform-minded practitioners of Chinese medicine, affords rare insight into both the promise and the shortcomings of western-style medical modernization. In particular, Ding’s experiences illustrate the ways in which illness and healing remained closely associated with moral virtue, even in the mind of this most committed modernizer. Through Ding, we can examine the growth of modern professions in China and the struggle to achieve any kind of professional monopoly on practice; the huge influence of Japan on China’s modernization, and aspects of the relationship between culture and scientific change.
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, Jun 25, 2015
This issue has been many years coming to fruition, for which I owe my fellow contributors and Han... more This issue has been many years coming to fruition, for which I owe my fellow contributors and Hans Ulrich Vogel, as journal editor, many apologies as well as deep gratitude for their patience. The original intent of this special issue was to take aspects of the contributors' scholarship that shed, in my opinion, new and important light on the history of medicine in China, and get these articles quickly into print. In spite of the various delays that impeded our progress, it is a testament to these scholars that their contributions are just as path-breaking now as they were when we started, even accounting for the substantial updating that they have been kind enough to provide. Taking these four essays by chronological time period, the first, by TJ Hinrichs, is a truly magisterial study of the ways in which epidemic diseases were understood in China from the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) through the end of the Song (960-1279). Starting from an observation of Paul Unschuld's, that China always had competing, and coexisting, theories of disease causation, Hinrichs takes the categories of "Warmth" and "Warm Diseases" as a vehicle for investigating this competition. By doing so, she is able to shed new light on a long-standing question in the history of Chinese medicine, which is why Zhang Zhongjing's 張仲景 Treatise on Cold Damage (Shanghan lun 傷寒論), written towards the end of the Han dynasty, became a canonical medical work only during the Song, nearly a thousand years later.
... Another kind of miracle. Autores: Bridie Andrews; Localización: Times literary supplement, TL... more ... Another kind of miracle. Autores: Bridie Andrews; Localización: Times literary supplement, TLS, ISSN 0307-661X, Nº 4925, 1997 , págs. 26-27. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario. Contraseña. Entrar. Mi Dialnet. ...
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2016
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2016
This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator ... more This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator Ding Fubao 丁福保 (1874-1952). Ding’s career as an early adopter and translator of scientific medicine, and as a broker between western-trained physicians and reform-minded practi-tioners of Chinese medicine, affords rare insight into both the promise and the shortcomings of western-style medical modernization. In particular, Ding’s experiences illustrate the ways in which illness and healing re-mained closely associated with moral virtue, even in the mind of this most committed modernizer. Through Ding, we can examine the growth of modern professions in China and the struggle to achieve any kind of professional monopoly on practice; the huge influence of Japan on China’s modernization, and aspects of the relationship between culture and scientific change.
Choice Reviews Online
Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone... more Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. In the century that followed, pressure to reform traditional medicine in China came not only from this small clutch of Westerners, but from within the country itself, as governments set on modernization aligned themselves against the traditions of the past, and individuals saw in the Western system the potential for new wealth and power. Out of this struggle emerged a newly systematized Chinese medicine that had much in common with the institutionalized learning and practices of the West. Yet at the same time, Western missionaries on Chinese shores continued to modify their own practices in the traditional style, hoping to appear more approachable to Chinese clients. This book examines the dichotomy between Western and Chinese medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more scientific by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how traditional Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.
American Anthropologist, 1999
... 1900 61 HILARY MARLAND 5 New Zealand milk for &#x... more ... 1900 61 HILARY MARLAND 5 New Zealand milk for 'building Britons' 79 PHILIPPA MEIN SMITH 6 Tropical medicine and colonial identity in northern Australia 103 SUZANNE PARRY 7 Colonial doctors and national myths: on telling lives in Australian medical biography 125 ...
Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine, 2015
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2001
1. Clio Med. 2001;61:53-71. From bedpan to revolution: Qiu Jin and western nursing. Andrews B. Hi... more 1. Clio Med. 2001;61:53-71. From bedpan to revolution: Qiu Jin and western nursing. Andrews B. History of Science Department, Harvard University, USA. PMID: 11603158 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]. Publication Types: ...
Choice Reviews Online, 2015
Medical History, Oct 1, 2010
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2006
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2015
This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator ... more This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator Ding Fubao 丁福保 (1874-1952). Ding’s career as an early adopter and translator of scientific medicine, and as a broker between western-trained physicians and reform-minded practitioners of Chinese medicine, affords rare insight into both the promise and the shortcomings of western-style medical modernization. In particular, Ding’s experiences illustrate the ways in which illness and healing remained closely associated with moral virtue, even in the mind of this most committed modernizer. Through Ding, we can examine the growth of modern professions in China and the struggle to achieve any kind of professional monopoly on practice; the huge influence of Japan on China’s modernization, and aspects of the relationship between culture and scientific change.
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, Jun 25, 2015
This issue has been many years coming to fruition, for which I owe my fellow contributors and Han... more This issue has been many years coming to fruition, for which I owe my fellow contributors and Hans Ulrich Vogel, as journal editor, many apologies as well as deep gratitude for their patience. The original intent of this special issue was to take aspects of the contributors' scholarship that shed, in my opinion, new and important light on the history of medicine in China, and get these articles quickly into print. In spite of the various delays that impeded our progress, it is a testament to these scholars that their contributions are just as path-breaking now as they were when we started, even accounting for the substantial updating that they have been kind enough to provide. Taking these four essays by chronological time period, the first, by TJ Hinrichs, is a truly magisterial study of the ways in which epidemic diseases were understood in China from the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) through the end of the Song (960-1279). Starting from an observation of Paul Unschuld's, that China always had competing, and coexisting, theories of disease causation, Hinrichs takes the categories of "Warmth" and "Warm Diseases" as a vehicle for investigating this competition. By doing so, she is able to shed new light on a long-standing question in the history of Chinese medicine, which is why Zhang Zhongjing's 張仲景 Treatise on Cold Damage (Shanghan lun 傷寒論), written towards the end of the Han dynasty, became a canonical medical work only during the Song, nearly a thousand years later.
... Another kind of miracle. Autores: Bridie Andrews; Localización: Times literary supplement, TL... more ... Another kind of miracle. Autores: Bridie Andrews; Localización: Times literary supplement, TLS, ISSN 0307-661X, Nº 4925, 1997 , págs. 26-27. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario. Contraseña. Entrar. Mi Dialnet. ...
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2016
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, 2016
This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator ... more This paper surveys the life and medical activities of Chinese scholar, physician, and translator Ding Fubao 丁福保 (1874-1952). Ding’s career as an early adopter and translator of scientific medicine, and as a broker between western-trained physicians and reform-minded practi-tioners of Chinese medicine, affords rare insight into both the promise and the shortcomings of western-style medical modernization. In particular, Ding’s experiences illustrate the ways in which illness and healing re-mained closely associated with moral virtue, even in the mind of this most committed modernizer. Through Ding, we can examine the growth of modern professions in China and the struggle to achieve any kind of professional monopoly on practice; the huge influence of Japan on China’s modernization, and aspects of the relationship between culture and scientific change.
Choice Reviews Online
Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone... more Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. In the century that followed, pressure to reform traditional medicine in China came not only from this small clutch of Westerners, but from within the country itself, as governments set on modernization aligned themselves against the traditions of the past, and individuals saw in the Western system the potential for new wealth and power. Out of this struggle emerged a newly systematized Chinese medicine that had much in common with the institutionalized learning and practices of the West. Yet at the same time, Western missionaries on Chinese shores continued to modify their own practices in the traditional style, hoping to appear more approachable to Chinese clients. This book examines the dichotomy between Western and Chinese medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more scientific by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how traditional Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.
American Anthropologist, 1999
... 1900 61 HILARY MARLAND 5 New Zealand milk for &#x... more ... 1900 61 HILARY MARLAND 5 New Zealand milk for 'building Britons' 79 PHILIPPA MEIN SMITH 6 Tropical medicine and colonial identity in northern Australia 103 SUZANNE PARRY 7 Colonial doctors and national myths: on telling lives in Australian medical biography 125 ...
Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine, 2015
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2001
1. Clio Med. 2001;61:53-71. From bedpan to revolution: Qiu Jin and western nursing. Andrews B. Hi... more 1. Clio Med. 2001;61:53-71. From bedpan to revolution: Qiu Jin and western nursing. Andrews B. History of Science Department, Harvard University, USA. PMID: 11603158 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]. Publication Types: ...