The experience of illness in early twentieth-century rural Shanxi
<p>This paper uses the diary and other records of Liu Dapeng (劉大鵬), a Shanxi village resident, to examine how people in rural China experienced and understood illness at an important time of transition for medical systems in China. It explains how Liu understood the illnesses that afflicted h...
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| description | <p>This paper uses the diary and other records of Liu Dapeng (劉大鵬), a Shanxi village resident, to examine how people in rural China experienced and understood illness at an important time of transition for medical systems in China. It explains how Liu understood the illnesses that afflicted himself and members of his family in terms of providence. The healing methods he used ranged through self-medication with folk remedies and modern patent medicines; remedies provided by families friends and neighbours (including acupuncture and prescriptions based on classical Chinese medicine); remedies provided by gods and shamans; and prescrip¬tions provided by professional doctors of Chinese medicine, whom Liu deeply distrusted. It also examines the arrival of Western medicine in Shanxi and argues that while this existed it was incorporated into networks of medicine provided by family and friends, rather than functioning as a separate institutional system.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:af4287f2-250c-4ba8-a89c-7f5b3e2efd142022-03-27T03:48:18ZThe experience of illness in early twentieth-century rural ShanxiJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:af4287f2-250c-4ba8-a89c-7f5b3e2efd14Symplectic Elements at OxfordInternational Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (ISHEASTM)2015Harrison, H <p>This paper uses the diary and other records of Liu Dapeng (劉大鵬), a Shanxi village resident, to examine how people in rural China experienced and understood illness at an important time of transition for medical systems in China. It explains how Liu understood the illnesses that afflicted himself and members of his family in terms of providence. The healing methods he used ranged through self-medication with folk remedies and modern patent medicines; remedies provided by families friends and neighbours (including acupuncture and prescriptions based on classical Chinese medicine); remedies provided by gods and shamans; and prescrip¬tions provided by professional doctors of Chinese medicine, whom Liu deeply distrusted. It also examines the arrival of Western medicine in Shanxi and argues that while this existed it was incorporated into networks of medicine provided by family and friends, rather than functioning as a separate institutional system.</p> |
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