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The first 50 years of western maps of diseases in China
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This first analysis of western maps of diseases in China demonstrates how they had multiple functions over their first 50 years of use from tools of analysis to work out what caused the epidemics they mapped to tools of empire, Chinese sovereignty, and public health propaganda.
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This article developed out of a footnote in the final chapter of my first book Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine. It was also a way for me to talk about something related to my first book without having to go over old material. It was especially gratifying to have a project so many of my colleagues contributed to through alerting me to new maps and giving me citations that turned out to be indispensable for what ended up being published in Science in Context. I thank all of my colleagues for their generosity in sharing what they know. This article was one of considerable collaboration.
Marta Hanson
Johns Hopkins University
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This page is a summary of: 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, Science in Context, September 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0269889717000205.
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