The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West (Body, Commodity, Text)
A study of how medical images of the body traveled between China and the West, shaping ideas of pathology, culture, and visual exchange.
About This Book
This book examines the circulation of medical images between China and Western contexts.
It considers how representations of the pathological body influenced cross-cultural understandings.
The study draws on visual culture and the history of medicine to trace these exchanges.
Emphasis is placed on the role of images as commodities within transnational flows.
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