The afterlife of images
Subtitle: translating the pathological body between China and the West
By: Larissa N. Heinrich.
Series: Body, commodity, text
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780822340935; 9780822341130
Subjects: Medical illustration -- History; Medicine in art -- History; Missions, Medical -- China -- History; Medicine -- China -- History; Medicine in Art -- China; Medicine in Art -- Europe; Medicine in Art -- United States; Attitude to Health -- China; Attitude to Health -- Europe; Attitude to Health -- United States; Cross-Cultural Comparison -- China; Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Europe; Cross-Cultural Comparison -- United States; History, 18th Century -- China; History, 18th Century -- Europe; History, 18th Century -- United States; History, 19th Century -- China; History, 19th Century -- Europe; History, 19th Century -- United States; History, 20th Century -- China; History, 20th Century -- Europe; History, 20th Century -- United States; Medical Illustration -- history -- China; Medical Illustration -- history -- Europe; Medical Illustration -- history -- United States; Missions and Missionaries -- history -- China; Missions and Missionaries -- history -- Europe; Missions and Missionaries -- history -- United States; Stereotyping -- China; Stereotyping -- Europe; Stereotyping -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: How China became the "cradle of smallpox": transformations in discourse; title: The pathological body: Lam Qua's medical portraiture; title: The pathological empire: early medical photography in China; title: "What's hard for the eye to see": anatomical aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun; title: Epilogue: Through the microscope.