Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963

Taylor, Ken

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“…institutionalisation, standardisation, and scientisation and research (for more on these changes see Farquhar 1992;Hsu 1999;Scheid 2002bScheid & 2007Taylor 2005). These had the effect of organising and systematising CM, while at the same time emphasising its 'scientific' aspects.…”

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“…For that purpose the CCP initiated the collection of pre-modern texts; produced new editions of classic texts and reprinted some ancient collections that had been unavailable for centuries; and it made a concerted effort to record the folk and family lineage practices of the masses because it was felt that all these materials and practices were the communal property of the Chinese people (Porkert 1976;Taylor 2005).…”

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The Transmission of Chinese Medicine in Australia

Garvey¹

2011

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The paper explores some of the issues concerning the transmission of Chinese medicine in Australia, its practitioner training and the future of Chinese medicine as a distinct medical discipline in the Australian context. In China over the last century Chinese medicine was overhauled in order to align it with the biomedical perspective prevalent in the West. These changes, in turn, had important consequences for the transmission of CM in Australia and the West. But while the biomedicalisation of CM has offered the path of least resistance, it has also lead to unworkable simplifications and methodological failures. The paper thus argues for a renewed access to the tradition’s primary sources in order to ally the distinctive features and methods of traditional practice with biomedicine, as an alternative to an outright integration into biomedical practice.

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The Transmission of Chinese Medicine in Australia

Garvey¹

2011

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“…Consequently, traditional Chinese medicine not only stands out as a unique case that survived the attack of science and modernity, but also flourished and became accepted into state-sanctioned public knowledge. Scholars following this line of inquiry place the practitioners of Chinese medicine and sometimes the medical missionaries at the center of their work (Lei 2014;Hanson 2010;Andrews 2014;Benedict 1996;Taylor 2005;Fang 2012).…”

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Relocating Pastorian Medicine: Accommodation and Acclimatization of Pastorian Practices against Smallpox at the Pasteur Institute of Chengdu, China, 1908–1927

Liu

2017

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ArgumentRevising the diffusionist view of current scholarship on the Pasteur Institutes in China, this paper demonstrates the ways in which local networks and circumstances informed the circulation and construction of knowledge and practices relating to smallpox prophylaxis in the Southwest of China during the early twentieth century. I argue that the Pasteur Institute of Chengdu did not operate in a natural continuity with the preceding local French medical institutions, but rather presented an intentional break from them. This Institute, as the first established by the French in China, strove for political and administrative independence both from the Chinese authority and from the Catholic Church. Yet, its operation realized political independence only partially. The founding of this Institute was also an attempt to satisfy the medical demand for local vaccine production. However, even though the Institute succeeded at producing the Jennerian vaccine locally, its production needed to accommodate local conditions pertaining to the climate, vaccine strains, and animals. Furthermore, vaccination had to conform to Chinese variolation, including its social and medical practices, in order to achieve the collaboration of local Chinese traditional practitioners with French colonial physicians, who were Pastorian-trained and worked at the Pasteur Institute of Chengdu. Thus the nature of the Pastorian work in Chengdu was not an imposition of foreign standards and practices, but rather a mutual compromise and collaboration between the French and the Chinese.

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“…But Mao Zedong had insisted that traditional Chinese medicine was a 'great treasure house', a phrase immortalised in The Little Red Book, and had to be taken seriously. 12 Herbs were harvested in the traditional way and subjected to extraction and analysis to see whether they contained any substance in the leaves, stem or root that killed the malarial parasite. At first, interest was directed at febrifugine 13 from Dichroa febrifuga.…”

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A brief history of malaria chemotherapy

Ar¹,

Khan²,

Ferguson³

2010

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Malaria is one of the worst sicknesses to affect humankind. For centuries there was no specific treatment, and it was not until the seventeenth century that Spanish colonisers brought back from Peru tree bark from which quinine was later extracted. In the twentieth century, synthetic alternatives to quinine were developed. Of these, chloroquine was the most successful, but by the 1970s widespread resistance had developed and the world was left without an effective treatment for malaria. During the same decade Chinese scientists extracted from sweet wormwood plant the drug artemisinin, which has proved to be very effective against chloroquine-resistant malarial parasites. The use of a combination therapy including artemisinin has made it possible to contemplate the eradication of malaria. Efforts to produce a stable and inexpensive supply of artemisinin are under way.

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Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963

Cited by 95 publications

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The Transmission of Chinese Medicine in Australia

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine in Australia

Relocating Pastorian Medicine: Accommodation and Acclimatization of Pastorian Practices against Smallpox at the Pasteur Institute of Chengdu, China, 1908–1927

A brief history of malaria chemotherapy

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