8. The Germ Theory and the Prehistory of “Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. Sovereignty and the Microscope: The Containment of the Manchurian Plague, 1910–11 21
5. 3. Connecting Medicine with the State: From Missionary Medicine to Public Health, 1860–1928 45
6. 4. Imagining the Relationship between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, 1890–1928 69
7. 5. The Chinese Medical Revolution and the National Medicine Movement 97
8. 6. Visualizing Health Care in 1930s Shanghai 121
9. 7. Science as a Verb: Scientizing Chinese Medicine and the Rise of Mongrel Medicine 141
10. 8. The Germ Theory and the Prehistory of “Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination” 167
11. 9. Research Design as Political Strategy: The Birth of the New Antimalaria Drug Changshan 193
12. 10. State Medicine for Rural China, 1929–49 223 223
13. 11. Conclusion: Thinking with Modern Chinese Medicine 259
14. Acknowledgments 283
15. Notes 289
16. Index 359
17. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University 383