Hilary A Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary A Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary A |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4808-1658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease
In Epidemic Orientalism, Alexandre I. R. White examines European- and American-led attempts to curtail the global spread of infectious diseases. He traces those efforts from the earliest International Sanitary Conferences in the 1850s through the repeated reformulation of the rules under World Health Organization (WHO) auspices between 1952 and 2005. He then explains pandemic bonds, the World Bank's recent invention to fund epidemic response in p…
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931-2022)
Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China by Liz P. Y. Chee
Reviewed by: Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China by Liz P. Y. Chee Hilary A. Smith Liz P. Y. Chee. Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China. Experimental Futures. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. x + 276 pp. Ill. $26.95 (978-1-4780-1404-1). Liz P. Y. Chee explains in Mao’s Bestiary a problem both consequential and poorly understood: the use of animal parts as medicinal objects in contemporary China. Despite bans…
A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine by Judith Farquhar
Food, health, and nutrition in Chinese history
This essay explores the relationships between food and health in Chinese history, from ancient times to the present. It briefly reviews how historians have written about dietary knowledge in China's past, from a midcentury focus on discoveries that prefigured those of modern nutrition science to a more expansive recent understanding of healthy eating. From there, the piece draws on scholarship from the past 2 decades to highlight the complexity o…
T amara V enit S helton . Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace
Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace is not a history of Chinese medicine, and that is one of its great strengths. Instead, it is a history of doctors: ethnic Chinese immigrants and their descendants who treated the sick and injured in the United States, mostly with herbs, from the mid-1800s to the present. Tamara Shelton wisely stays silent about the healing content of their practices: how they were t…
Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism. By Edward Slingerland
Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism. By Edward Slingerland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 385. $35
Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions. In Forgotten Disease , Hilary A. Smith argue…
Emily Baum, The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
Liping Bu. Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865–2015
In Public Health and the Modernization of China, Liping Bu offers the most comprehensive overview available of the history of public health in modern China. Its five chronologically ordered chapters show how the political vicissitudes of the past century and a half shaped China’s public-health institutions and initiatives. By specifying Chinese characters for important terms and names, but also including basic historical background, the book stri…
Skipping Breakfast to Save the Nation: A Different Kind of Dietary Determinism in Early Twentieth-Century China
Dietary advice that advocates of scientific nutrition offered to Chinese people in the early twentieth century often encouraged them to adopt a Western-style regimen prominently featuring meat, wheat, and dairy. Some East Asian intellectuals, however, promoted science based dietary reforms that did not require a change in the composition of their diets. This article examines one example of such an alternative perspective, a book of dietary advice…
Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China by Andrew Schonebaum
Reviewed by: Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China by Andrew Schonebaum Hilary A. Smith Andrew Schonebaum. Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. viii + 283 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0295995182). Like an early modern Chinese novel, Andrew Schonebaum’s book Novel Medicine both informs and titillates. It offers insight int…
Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China, written by Yi-Li Wu
Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History, written by T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes
English language issues for jury service by New Zealanders from migrant and refugee backgrounds
This paper describes an exploratory study carried out to identify the issues for jury service for people with low levels of English language ability. Questions were emailed to English language teachers and providers of support services to New Zealanders from migrant and refugee backgrounds. The experiences reported by respondents related to issues of understanding the New Zealand legal system, responses to jury summons, excusal from jury service,…
Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science
Food, health, and nutrition in Chinese history
This essay explores the relationships between food and health in Chinese history, from ancient times to the present. It briefly reviews how historians have written about dietary knowledge in China's past, from a midcentury focus on discoveries that prefigured those of modern nutrition science to a more expansive recent understanding of healthy eating. From there, the piece draws on scholarship from the past 2 decades to highlight the complexity o…
Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science
English language issues for jury service by New Zealanders from migrant and refugee backgrounds
This paper describes an exploratory study carried out to identify the issues for jury service for people with low levels of English language ability. Questions were emailed to English language teachers and providers of support services to New Zealanders from migrant and refugee backgrounds. The experiences reported by respondents related to issues of understanding the New Zealand legal system, responses to jury summons, excusal from jury service,…
Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China, written by Yi-Li Wu
Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History, written by T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes
Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China by Andrew Schonebaum
Reviewed by: Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China by Andrew Schonebaum Hilary A. Smith Andrew Schonebaum. Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. viii + 283 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0295995182). Like an early modern Chinese novel, Andrew Schonebaum’s book Novel Medicine both informs and titillates. It offers insight int…
Skipping Breakfast to Save the Nation: A Different Kind of Dietary Determinism in Early Twentieth-Century China
Dietary advice that advocates of scientific nutrition offered to Chinese people in the early twentieth century often encouraged them to adopt a Western-style regimen prominently featuring meat, wheat, and dairy. Some East Asian intellectuals, however, promoted science based dietary reforms that did not require a change in the composition of their diets. This article examines one example of such an alternative perspective, a book of dietary advice…
Emily Baum, The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
Liping Bu. Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865–2015
In Public Health and the Modernization of China, Liping Bu offers the most comprehensive overview available of the history of public health in modern China. Its five chronologically ordered chapters show how the political vicissitudes of the past century and a half shaped China’s public-health institutions and initiatives. By specifying Chinese characters for important terms and names, but also including basic historical background, the book stri…
Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these new identities as revelations, overlooking evidence that challenges Western ideas about these conditions. In Forgotten Disease , Hilary A. Smith argue…
Food, health, and nutrition in Chinese history
This essay explores the relationships between food and health in Chinese history, from ancient times to the present. It briefly reviews how historians have written about dietary knowledge in China's past, from a midcentury focus on discoveries that prefigured those of modern nutrition science to a more expansive recent understanding of healthy eating. From there, the piece draws on scholarship from the past 2 decades to highlight the complexity o…
T amara V enit S helton . Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace
Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace is not a history of Chinese medicine, and that is one of its great strengths. Instead, it is a history of doctors: ethnic Chinese immigrants and their descendants who treated the sick and injured in the United States, mostly with herbs, from the mid-1800s to the present. Tamara Shelton wisely stays silent about the healing content of their practices: how they were t…
Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism. By Edward Slingerland
Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism. By Edward Slingerland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 385. $35
Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China by Liz P. Y. Chee
Reviewed by: Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China by Liz P. Y. Chee Hilary A. Smith Liz P. Y. Chee. Mao’s Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China. Experimental Futures. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. x + 276 pp. Ill. $26.95 (978-1-4780-1404-1). Liz P. Y. Chee explains in Mao’s Bestiary a problem both consequential and poorly understood: the use of animal parts as medicinal objects in contemporary China. Despite bans…
A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine by Judith Farquhar
Eloge: Nathan Sivin (1931-2022)
Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease
In Epidemic Orientalism, Alexandre I. R. White examines European- and American-led attempts to curtail the global spread of infectious diseases. He traces those efforts from the earliest International Sanitary Conferences in the 1850s through the repeated reformulation of the rules under World Health Organization (WHO) auspices between 1952 and 2005. He then explains pandemic bonds, the World Bank's recent invention to fund epidemic response in p…
History (11 works) · China (10 works) · History of Science and Medicine (10 works) · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works)