Visualizing the Geography of the Diseases of China: Western Disease Maps from Analytical Tools to Tools of Empire, Sovereignty, and Public Health Propaganda, 1878-1929

TY - JOUR

T1 - Visualizing the Geography of the Diseases of China

T2 - Western Disease Maps from Analytical Tools to Tools of Empire, Sovereignty, and Public Health Propaganda, 1878-1929

AU - Hanson, Marta

N1 - Funding Information: This article was made possible by several research stays over the course of five years between 2011–2016 at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities “Fate, Freedom and Prognostication: Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s (BMBF). While working on a new book project at the Consortium, I also presented new research on disease maps related to my first book. I also thank colleagues and students at the University of Toronto, Yale University, University of Nevada Reno, the Modern China seminar at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins History seminar, Oxford and Cambridge University, Heidelberg University, Erlangen University, Tel Aviv University, Academia Sinica at Berkeley and Stanford, for opportunities to discuss earlier versions of this research. Special thanks are due to Bill Summers, Mary Brazelton, and Richard Sosa (Yale), Meaghan Marian (Toronto), Graham Mooney (Johns Hopkins), Angela Leung (Hong Kong University), Daniel Ham (Oxford), Robert John Perrins (Acadia University), Christos Lynteris and Lukas Engelmann (CRASSH, Cambridge University), Michele Thompson (Southern Connecticut State University), Hsinhsuan Pamela Lee (Taiwan National University) and Michael Shiyung Liu (Academia Sinica) for generously sharing with me the medical maps of China, Japan, and Taiwan that they had come across in their own research. I also owe gratitude to my colleagues Chu Ping-yi and Ling Hong Lam for critical comments that proved decisive. The comments of one anonymous reviewer for this article were exceptionally well formulated and considerably improved the final revision of this article. Finally, I thank my late colleague Harry Marks with whom I had my first and formative conversations on the history of disease maps.

PY - 2017/9/1

Y1 - 2017/9/1

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U2 - 10.1017/S0269889717000205

DO - 10.1017/S0269889717000205

M3 - Article

C2 - 29019458

AN - SCOPUS:85038031535

SN - 0269-8897

VL - 30

SP - 219

EP - 280

JO - Science in Context

JF - Science in Context

IS - 3

ER -