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 newlyarrived 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, 18501960. 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 China Perspectives 87 (2011): 513. Nakamura, Ellen. Practical Pursuits: Takano Choei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in NineteenthCentury Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. Selin, Helaine and Hugh Shapiro. Medicine across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in NonWestern Culture