title: Imagining Chinese Medicine (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian)
author: Lo Vivienne
description: '<i>Imagining Chinese Medicine</i> is something quite special, within and beyond Chinese studies. It is a work that systematically applies iconology to the history of knowledge. In addition to its worth as a major contribution to the history of Chinese medicine, science and embodiment, it makes two signal contributions to the broader history of science / knowledge. First, it provides a spectrum of unfamiliar insights that challenge many commonplaces in the still largely Eurocentric history of perception, embodiment, and visual culture. Second, it deploys iconology to powerful effect as a method for generating a rhizomatic, non-linear history of knowledge.(...) This unique, path-breaking collection will set the terms for future studies of medicine and embodiment in Chinese history, and will be an essential work of reference for years to come.'<br /><br />Francesca Bray<br />Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology<br />University of Edinburgh<br />
zlib_text: #  Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities
  
  “This collection of film studies brings together the creative work of China’s
  most talented filmmakers as they reflect on contemporary social problems, work
  out in narratives and images an original analysis of what’s wrong with us (as
  individuals, as a society, and in cultural settings), and as they propose
  paths to redemption.”
  
  – **Judith Farquhar** , Max Palevsky Professor Emerita, Department of
  Anthropology, University of Chicago
  
  _Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities_ is the first book to reflect on the
  power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both
  the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future.
  
  Drawing on both feature and documentary films from mainland China, the
  chapters each engage with the field of medicine through the visual arts. They
  cover themes such as the history of doctors and their concepts of disease and
  therapies, understanding the patient experience of illness and death, and
  e