1685 VOSSIUS, Isaak (Isaac Voss) (1618 – 1689)
Variarum observationum liber.
Vossius, a Dutch scholar and manuscript collector, was one of the first European writers to suggest that the Chinese had anticipated William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. In his chapter on Chines…
GMN 11718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13919
1813 LEPAGE, François-Albin (1793 – )
Recherches historiques sur la médecine des chinois.
The first Western history of Chinese medicine. Lepage, a pupil of Pierre Sue, was a friend and colleague of pioneer sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. In his medical thesis Lepage presented an overview of what was t…
GMN 14178 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16493
1831 TAKI, Mototane (1789 – 1827)
Iseki kō. (I Chi Kao). 8 vols.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography in Japanese of Chinese medical literature, including materia medica. The bibliography includes works for which the author had references, but could not locate copies. According t…
GMN 9490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11674
1867 WISE, Thomas Alexander (1801 – 1889)
Review of the history of medicine. 2 vols.
Vol. 1, Part 1: "Primitive period among the Asiatic nations," i.e. Hindus. Vol. 2, Part 1: "Ancient state of medicine among the Hindus (continued)". Part 1: "Review of the Buddhist systems of medicine." Part 3: "Revie…
GMN 8210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10386
1884 GORDON, Sir Charles Alexander (1821 – 1899)
An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.
Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…
GMN 9422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11605
1913 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Beiträge zur kenntnis der chinesischen sowie der tibetisch-mongolischen pharmakologie.
Contributions to the history of pharmacology in China, Tibet and Mongolia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14989
1913 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Shou-Shi-Pien: Ein chinesisches Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe. Aus dem chinesischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von Dr. med. et phil. Hübotter.
GMN 12744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14990
1929 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Die chinesische Medizin zu Beginn des XX. Jahrhunderts und ihr historischer Entwicklungsgang.
GMN 12741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14987
1932 WU, Lien-Teh (1879 – 1959); WONG, K. Chimin (1889 – 1972)
History of Chinese medicine.
The writers spent 15 years in the compilation of this work, the first important contribution to the history of Chinese medicine for Western readers. Beginning with demonology, plant lore and folk medicine, the writers…
GMN 6493 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8002
1962 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Les reflets de la sphygmologie chinoise dans la médecine occidentale.
GMN 7517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9689
1979 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.
The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …
GMN 8128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10304
1980 NEEDHAM, Joseph Terence Montgomery (1900 – 1995); LU, Gwei-djen (1904 – 1991)
Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.
A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.
GMN 6374.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8335
1985 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medicine in China: A history of ideas.
The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…
GMN 6495.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8014
1986 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.
GMN 9419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11602
1988 HOIZEY, Dominique; HOIZEY, Marie-Joseph
Histoire de la médecine chinoise.
GMN 9707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11894
1989 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.
GMN 9730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11917
2000 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medicine in China. Historical artifacts and images.
GMN 7045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9212
2003 GRANT, Joanna
A Chinese physician: Wang Ji and the "Stone Mountain medical case histories".
A study of Wang Ji's Shishan yian (Stone Mountain medical case histories) first published in print in 1531.
GMN 7147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9314
2003 SELIN, Helaine (1946 – )
Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
A very wide-ranging selection of essays
GMN 9746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11934
2005 CULLEN, Christopher; LO, Vivienne; ET AL
Medieval Chinese medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen.
GMN 7146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9313
2005 BARNES, Linda L. (1953 – )
Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the west to 1848.
GMN 9478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11662
2008 HANSON, Marta E.
"Hand mnemonics in classical Chinese medicine: Texts, earliest images, and arts of memory," Festschrift issued in honor of Nathan Sivin, Asia Major series 3, 21.1, 325-357.
GMN 9489 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11673
2009 GOLDSCHMIDT, Asaf Moshe
The evolution of Chinese medicine: Song dynasty 960-1200.
GMN 7149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9316
2011 HANSON, Marta E.
Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.
GMN 9488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11672
2012 RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
GMN 7891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10063
2013 HINRICHS, T. J.; BARNES, Linda L. (1953 – )
Chinese medicine and healing. An illustrated history.
Contributions from 53 scholars, edited by Hinrichs and Barnes.
GMN 7034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9201
2014 ANDREWS, Bridie
The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.
GMN 14355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16685
2015 MÉTAILIÉ, Georges
Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.
GMN 9706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11893
2015 BROWN, Miranda (1975 – )
The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.
GMN 11196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13393
2018 LO, Vivienne; BARRETT, Penelope
Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .
Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.
GMN 10533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12726