We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine, published by Stanford University Press. The book's author is Hilary A. Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Denver. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese … [Read more...]
Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Hilary A. Smith (Stanford University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; … [Read more...]
Study of the WEAI “Neither Donkey nor Horse” Wins 2016 William H. Welch Medal
We are pleased to announce that Sean Hsiang-lin Lei's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China's Modernity has received the 2016 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. Published in 2014 by the University of Chicago Press, Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of … [Read more...]
