The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West by Ari Larissa Heinrich

The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West

Body, Commodity, Text: Studies of Objectifying Practice

Ari Larissa Heinrich

222 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history informative reflective medium-paced
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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 indicat...

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