Marta Hanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3663370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Hanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanson |
| SIGNATURE | HANSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6190-7499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Natalie Köhle
Medical Bilingualism
This paper explores increased use of the concept of “medical bilingualism” since 2015 as scholars, especially of East Asian medical history and anthropology, have applied it to engagements between two medical systems. It reveals an ongoing evolution in the way that scholars understand what a medical system is and how medical systems are differentiated and compared with one another. The image of culturally homogeneous systems of meaning and practi…
Introduction “Beyond Classical Chinese Medicine
Narrative Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Grasping Heaven and Earth (Qian Kun Zai Wo)
Shifting focus from the patient’s body to the healer’s body, this essay focuses on how Chinese physicians instrumentalized their bodies to heal (ie, body-as-technology) and their hands to think with (ie, hand-memory techniques or simply, hand mnemonics). When physicians used their hands to memorize concepts related to clinical practice, calculate with time variables, and carry out ritual gestures intended to reduce risk, improve fortune, and even…
Chinese Sources for AfterWards
This paper focuses on Chinese sources suggested for a narrative medicine (NM) program, called AfterWards. Dr Lauren Small established AfterWards in 2014 and has been coordinating it since out of the Pediatrics Department at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In early 2019, she started giving a series of lectures and workshops about AfterWards to Chinese medical educators and clinicians in Beijing and Shanghai. She created an AfterWards Facilitator’s Guide b…
Narrative Medicine in China and Chinese Sources for Narrative Medicine
Ethical approval: This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by the author. Author contributions: Marta Hanson wrote and reviewed the article. Conflicts of interest: The author was Guest Editor of this special issue. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and sha…
L’esprit en main dans le Canon classifié ( Leijing 類經, 1624)
Lorsque les médecins chinois utilisaient leurs mains pour mémoriser des concepts, pour calculer des durées, pour établir des pronostics ou pour effectuer les gestes de rituels thérapeutiques, elles devenaient le prolongement de leur esprit. Ces techniques n’ont pourtant pas retenu l’attention qu’elles méritent comme exemples de cognition étendue. Cela tient notamment au fait que de semblables techniques cognitives fondées sur la main, largement a…
Eloge
Epistemic Genres as a Conceptual Tool in the History of Chinese Medicine
This article summarizes the collaboration between two historians of medicine on Sino-European medical exchanges. Gianna Pomata researches the history of medicine in early modern Europe and Marta Hanson researches the history of medicine in early modern China. The following covers the concept of epistemic genres that Pomata first developed out of her research on the history of the genres historia, observationes, recipes, medical cases, and the com…
Physiognomy in Ming China
Expanded Possibilities for Teaching Asian Medicines
Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the pedagogical forum. For our launch of this new format, forum editors Zanolini and Hanson invited a range of scholars and practitioners teaching East Asian medicine within diverse institutional contexts to contribute. Their different approaches to teaching can be more broadly applied to any medical tradition in Asia
What a Map and a Portrait Have in Common
This short essay summarizes thoughts inspired by two images chosen for covers of the journal EASTS—a portrait of an East Asian female scientist and a map of the Pacific Ocean region centered on Taiwan. At first glance, they appear to bear no relation to each other until one realizes that they were both produced in 1944 within the Japanese “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere”—the map in colonial Taiwan and the portrait in colonial Korea
From under the elbow to pointing to the palm
This article focuses on transformations in the main metaphors in ancient to late medieval titles of Chinese medical books used to convey to potential readers their ‘learning-by-the-book’ contents. It finds that in contrast to the European preference for hand metaphors in the genre terms – enchiridions, manuals and handbooks – the Chinese medical archive preserves bodily metaphors within which the hand metaphor appears only rarely in the early med…
From Sick Man of Asia to Sick Uncle Sam
China was once mocked by Westerners as the “Sick Man of Asia.” That caricature provided motivation for a long campaign of national rejuvenation. Now the tables are turned after China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic proved more effective than that of the United States and other Western nations
Medicinal Formulas and Experiential Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Epistemic Exchange between China and Europe
This essay deals with the medical recipe as an epistemic genre that played an important role in the cross-cultural transmission of knowledge. The article first compares the development of the recipe as a textual form in Chinese and European premodern medical cultures. It then focuses on the use of recipes in the transmission of Chinese pharmacology to Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century. The main sources examined are the Chinese …
Visualizing the Geography of the Diseases of China
ArgumentThis article analyzes for the first time the earliest western maps of diseases in China spanning fifty years from the late 1870s to the end of the 1920s. The 24 featured disease maps present a visual history of the major transformations in modern medicine from medical geography to laboratory medicine wrought on Chinese soil. These medical transformations occurred within new political formations from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) to colonia…
The Anthropology and History of Medicine in Korea
Special Issue
Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in East Asia, Expanded
What began as a simple question, in conversation with Ben Elman this past May, about when Kuhn's Structure was translated into Chinese and by whom, has turned into a complex historiography of the h
Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine
Special Section on Gender and Medicine
Special Section on Gender and Medicine Marta Hanson Two articles in this issue of Late Imperial China pay intellectual tribute to the illuminating scholarship on the history of gender and medicine in China of Charlotte Furth. Yi-Li Wu's contribution, "Body, Gender, and Disease: The Female Breast in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine," carries out an unpacking of the layers of meaning of the diseased and lactating breast comparable to that done by Fur…
Maoist public-health campaigns, Chinese medicine, and Sars
Needham's Heavenly Volumes and Earthly Tomes
Public Health and National Reconstruction in Postwar Asia
Medicinal Formulas and Experiential Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Epistemic Exchange between China and Europe
This essay deals with the medical recipe as an epistemic genre that played an important role in the cross-cultural transmission of knowledge. The article first compares the development of the recipe as a textual form in Chinese and European premodern medical cultures. It then focuses on the use of recipes in the transmission of Chinese pharmacology to Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century. The main sources examined are the Chinese …
Robust Northerners and Delicate Southerners
Research Article| August 01 1998 Robust Northerners and Delicate Southerners: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of a Southern Medical Tradition Marta Hanson Marta Hanson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1998) 6 (3): 515–550. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-515 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools…
Visualizing the Geography of the Diseases of China
ArgumentThis article analyzes for the first time the earliest western maps of diseases in China spanning fifty years from the late 1870s to the end of the 1920s. The 24 featured disease maps present a visual history of the major transformations in modern medicine from medical geography to laboratory medicine wrought on Chinese soil. These medical transformations occurred within new political formations from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) to colonia…
Needham's Heavenly Volumes and Earthly Tomes
Chinese Thought, Society, and Science
Guest Editor's Introduction
Following the example set decades ago by Foucault, critical studies of medicine, health, and disease have become important subfields in history, anthropology, and the humanities.But these incursions into the domain previously monopolized by biomedical research have opened and occupied a contested and unstable ground.Perhaps the moral freight attaching to medical positivism-the widely held view that only scientifically verifiable knowledge is an e…
Robust Northerners and Delicate Southerners
Research Article| August 01 1998 Robust Northerners and Delicate Southerners: The Nineteenth-Century Invention of a Southern Medical Tradition Marta Hanson Marta Hanson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1998) 6 (3): 515–550. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-6-3-515 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools…
Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea
With Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea Drs. Jürgen Kovacs and Paul Unschuld provide a new translation of a Chinese medical text not only for historians of medicine but also for practitioners of Chinese medicine and biomedicine. Paul Unschuld has published two previous books in this genre: the first, Nanching: The Classic of Difficult Issues (1986), presented an important second-century consensus on eighty-one problems in the medical canons o…
The Golden Mirror in the Imperial Court of the Qianlong Emperor, 1739-1742
In the last month of 1739, the third f the Manchu rulers, the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-1795), ordered the compilation of a treatise on medicine "to rectify medical knowledge" throughout the empire. By the end of 1742, eighty participants chosen from several offices within the palace bureaucracy based in Beijing completed the Golden Mirror of the Orthodox Lineage of Medicine, the only imperially commissioned medical text the Qing government's Imp…
Depleted Men, Emotional Women
depleted men, emotional women 287 Review Article DEPLETED MEN, EMOTIONAL WOMEN: GENDER AND MEDICINE IN THE MING DYNASTY by MARTA E. HANSON (Johns Hopkins University) Joanna Grant. A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the ‘Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories.’ Needham Research Institute Series. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003. xi, 209 pp., illus. £ 55.00/US$114.95 cloth. ISBN 0-415-29758-3. General Assessments In her new book Vernacular Bodies , Mary…
Enhancing the Practitioner's Sense of Time, Place, and Practice
This article reproduces an exchange between academics and practitioners at the Sixth International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine (ICTAM VI) meeting in Austin about how the history of Chinese medicine could be more meaningful, interesting, and valuable to clinicians. It provides a brief history of exchanges, the panel proposal, the abstracts of the panelists, an edited transcript of the conversation, and some concluding remarks from the p…
Northern Purgatives, Southern Restoratives
Physicians during the Ming dynasty (1368—1644) understood that the Chinese empire was geographically diverse. They observed that their patients were corporeally and physiologically heterogeneous. They interpreted this ecological and human diversity within the reunited Ming Empire according to both an ancient northwest-southeast axis and a new emphasis on north versus south. The geographic distinctions—northern and southern ( nanbei 南北) as well as…
Needham's Heavenly Volumes and Earthly Tomes
Maoist public-health campaigns, Chinese medicine, and Sars
Special Section on Gender and Medicine
Special Section on Gender and Medicine Marta Hanson Two articles in this issue of Late Imperial China pay intellectual tribute to the illuminating scholarship on the history of gender and medicine in China of Charlotte Furth. Yi-Li Wu's contribution, "Body, Gender, and Disease: The Female Breast in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine," carries out an unpacking of the layers of meaning of the diseased and lactating breast comparable to that done by Fur…
Special Issue
Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in East Asia, Expanded
What began as a simple question, in conversation with Ben Elman this past May, about when Kuhn's Structure was translated into Chinese and by whom, has turned into a complex historiography of the h
Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine
The Anthropology and History of Medicine in Korea
Medicinal Formulas and Experiential Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Epistemic Exchange between China and Europe
This essay deals with the medical recipe as an epistemic genre that played an important role in the cross-cultural transmission of knowledge. The article first compares the development of the recipe as a textual form in Chinese and European premodern medical cultures. It then focuses on the use of recipes in the transmission of Chinese pharmacology to Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century. The main sources examined are the Chinese …
Visualizing the Geography of the Diseases of China
ArgumentThis article analyzes for the first time the earliest western maps of diseases in China spanning fifty years from the late 1870s to the end of the 1920s. The 24 featured disease maps present a visual history of the major transformations in modern medicine from medical geography to laboratory medicine wrought on Chinese soil. These medical transformations occurred within new political formations from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) to colonia…
From under the elbow to pointing to the palm
This article focuses on transformations in the main metaphors in ancient to late medieval titles of Chinese medical books used to convey to potential readers their ‘learning-by-the-book’ contents. It finds that in contrast to the European preference for hand metaphors in the genre terms – enchiridions, manuals and handbooks – the Chinese medical archive preserves bodily metaphors within which the hand metaphor appears only rarely in the early med…
From Sick Man of Asia to Sick Uncle Sam
China was once mocked by Westerners as the “Sick Man of Asia.” That caricature provided motivation for a long campaign of national rejuvenation. Now the tables are turned after China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic proved more effective than that of the United States and other Western nations
Expanded Possibilities for Teaching Asian Medicines
Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the pedagogical forum. For our launch of this new format, forum editors Zanolini and Hanson invited a range of scholars and practitioners teaching East Asian medicine within diverse institutional contexts to contribute. Their different approaches to teaching can be more broadly applied to any medical tradition in Asia
What a Map and a Portrait Have in Common
This short essay summarizes thoughts inspired by two images chosen for covers of the journal EASTS—a portrait of an East Asian female scientist and a map of the Pacific Ocean region centered on Taiwan. At first glance, they appear to bear no relation to each other until one realizes that they were both produced in 1944 within the Japanese “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere”—the map in colonial Taiwan and the portrait in colonial Korea
Epistemic Genres as a Conceptual Tool in the History of Chinese Medicine
This article summarizes the collaboration between two historians of medicine on Sino-European medical exchanges. Gianna Pomata researches the history of medicine in early modern Europe and Marta Hanson researches the history of medicine in early modern China. The following covers the concept of epistemic genres that Pomata first developed out of her research on the history of the genres historia, observationes, recipes, medical cases, and the com…
Physiognomy in Ming China
Grasping Heaven and Earth (Qian Kun Zai Wo)
Shifting focus from the patient’s body to the healer’s body, this essay focuses on how Chinese physicians instrumentalized their bodies to heal (ie, body-as-technology) and their hands to think with (ie, hand-memory techniques or simply, hand mnemonics). When physicians used their hands to memorize concepts related to clinical practice, calculate with time variables, and carry out ritual gestures intended to reduce risk, improve fortune, and even…
Chinese Sources for AfterWards
This paper focuses on Chinese sources suggested for a narrative medicine (NM) program, called AfterWards. Dr Lauren Small established AfterWards in 2014 and has been coordinating it since out of the Pediatrics Department at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In early 2019, she started giving a series of lectures and workshops about AfterWards to Chinese medical educators and clinicians in Beijing and Shanghai. She created an AfterWards Facilitator’s Guide b…
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