Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chi. Smith Hardcover<|

Forgotten DiseaseIllnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine\nAuthor(s): Hilary A. Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503602090, 978-1503602090\nSynopsis\nAround the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicinesudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions. In Forgotten Disease, Hilary A. Smith argues that, by privileging nineteenth century sources, we misrepresent what traditional Chinese doctors were seeing and doing, therefore unfairly viewing their medicine as inferior. \n\n Drawing on a wide array of sources, ranging from early Chinese classics to modern scientific research, Smith traces the hi.