Aug 15, 2006 · In 2006, an online exhibition called Chinese Public Health Posters was created from the presentation of Dr. Liping Bu (卜丽萍), titled “Public Health and Chinese Society from …

The missionaries promoted Western medicine as more scientific than Chinese medicine, which they dismissed as superstition. They also taught young Chinese Western medicine at hospitals …

Chung Chung-ching (神農), fl. 168-196 AD, drawing published in Zhongguo li dai ming yi tu zhuan (Biographies and portraits of Chinese famous doctors in past dynasties), 1987 Regarded as …

锁阳固精丸 (Chinese medicine to improve men's health and fertility), n.d. 安神赞育丸 (Chinese medicine to improve women's health and pregnancy), n.d. Pharmaceutical advertisement of …

Chinese medicine seems to have reached its peak during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) when Li Shih-chen 李時珍 wrote his Pen ts'ao kang mu (The Great Herbal). This great pharmacopoeia, …

Lesson 1: Western Influence of Modern Medicine and Public Health in China during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries Modern Western medicine—biomedicine—was introduced to China in the …

This first volume of Shen-nung pen ts'ao pei yao i fang ho pien (Herbal and Prescriptions), was published in 1740 and is one part of the most extensive documents in Chinese medical history. …

In 2006, the National Library of Medicine acquired a Chinese public health collection, some 7,000 items—including posters, scrolls, pharmaceutical ads and puzzles. The posters were designed …

The Nan-ching was a brief commentary in two volumes on the Nei-ching, whose title is translated as "The Canon of Chinese Medicine," some of whose chapters date as far back as the fifth …

This collection of cartoons explores themes such as family planning policy and its practice, popular science and “better babies”, healthy births, marriage, family life, and Chinese society. …