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  • The Afterlife of Images

    Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with ... Leer más

    $396 MXN

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  • The Smile Revolution

    In Eighteenth-Century Paris

    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... Leer más

    $245 MXN

  • Uyghur Nation

    Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

    de David Brophy ...
    The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community ... Leer más

    $635 MXN

  • Diagnosing Giants

    Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

    Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In ... Leer más

    $526 MXN

  • Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC– AD 1644

    Series Libro 84 - Fortress
    It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof.Even the smallest village invariably had some form of defensive wall, while the Great Wall of China was an attempt to build a barrier along the most vulnerable border of the entire country. Yet the finest examples of walled communities were China's walled cities, whose defensive architecture ... Leer más

    $246 MXN

  • In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room

    Travels Through Indian Medicine

    WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZEThe story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions.Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine came to be the way it is. Her travels will take her to bonesetter clinics in Jaipur and Hyderabad and the waiting ... Leer más

    $137 MXN

  • The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911

    The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

    When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history, William Summers relates how this plague killed as many as 60,000 people in less than a year, and ... Leer más

    $635 MXN

  • The Smile Stealers

    The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry

    This achingly jawdropping book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, presenting captivating and grim illustrations of the tools and techniques of dentistry through the ages. Organized chronologically, The Smile Stealers interleaves beautiful and gruesome technical illustrations and paintings from the Wellcome Collections unique archive of ... Leer más

    $338 MXN

  • The Body Incantatory

    Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

    de Paul Copp ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were pervasive features of Buddhist practice in late medieval China (600–1000 C.E.). Material incantations, in forms such as spell-inscribed amulets and stone pillars, were also central to the spiritual lives of both monks and laypeople. In centering ... Leer más

    $619 MXN

  • Fleshing out surfaces

    Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850

    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in ... Leer más

    $1,610 MXN

  • Embattled Glory

    Veterans, Military Families, and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949–2007

    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    This groundbreaking book examines the treatment of veterans of the People's Liberation Army and military families as an illuminating window into Chinese patriotism, citizenship, and legitimacy. Using a wealth of recently declassified archival documents and employing a wide comparative perspective, Neil J. Diamant presents the first large-scale study of these groups in comparison to similar ... Leer más

    $970 MXN

  • Reconstructing the Body

    Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War

    The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical efficiency. However, such horror was not the entire story. People also rebuilt their lives, their communities, and their bodies. From the ashes of war rose ... Leer más

    $1,734 MXN