Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the ...

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the ...

Chapter 6 in the book Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine edited by Howard Chiang.

Chapter 4 in Uneasy Encounters: The Politics of Medicine and Health in China, 1900-1937.

Mary Augusta Brazelton, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2019, 258 pp., isbn 978 1 50173 998 9 (hardcover). In her exemplary study, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies ...

This article argues that the establishment of anatomo-power in China preceded and set the foundation for biopower. Anatomo-power is disciplinary power over live bodies in the military, schools, and hospitals, but also the power of ...

Wayne Soon's book on the rise of global medicine in China in the first half of the twentieth century addresses its lessons directly to the People's Republic of China in the midst of a global ...

In the 21st century, most patients and physicians leave the content of their medicines to the laboratories that produce them and the national agencies that regulate them. In China and Chinatowns around the world, you ...

In the late Qing and Republican periods (1842-1949), Shanghai became a testing ground for a variety of schemes to adapt European public health measures in order to transform the industrializing urban environment and the health ...

Post-Mao China has seen the embrace of a neoliberal market logic that has brought the objectification and commodification of human bodies and body parts to its logical conclusion—kidneys, livers, and even hearts and corneas are ...

Book review by David Luesink. Heinrich, A. L. (2018). Chinese surplus: Biopolitical aesthetics and the medically commodified body. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Book review by David Luesink.

Book review by David Luesink of H.A. Smith, Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine.

Book review by David Luesink. Ling, X. (2019). Feeling the past in seventeenth-century China. Harvard University Asia Center.

Book review by David Luesink. Henriot, C. (2016). Scythe and the city: A social history of death in Shanghai. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804798747