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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the globalisation of Chinese products and practices in the present day, taking in subjects from ancient medical writings to therapeutic movement, to talismans for healing and traditional medicines that have inspired global solutions to contemporary epidemics. The volume is divided into seven parts:
Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions
Sickness and Healing
Food and Sex
Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices
The World of Sinographic Medicine
Wider Diasporas
Negotiating Modernity

This handbook therefore introduces the broad range of ideas and techniques that comprise pre-modern medicine in China, and the historiographical and ethnographic approaches that have illuminated them. It will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, and the history of medicine and anthropology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, patients and specialists wishing to refresh their knowledge with the latest developments in the field.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still predominate, and there are few panoramic studies that analyze the overarching tendencies in the development of health in the region. This comprehensive book summarizes the social history of medicine, medical education, and public health in Latin America and places it in dialogue with the international historiographical currents in medicine and health. Ultimately, this text provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medical developments while illuminating the recent challenges of global health in the region and other developing countries

1. Setting the stage -- 2. In the beginning : the early years of the founders of rehabilitation medicine -- 3. The roots of rehabilitation medicine in the progressive era, 1900 to 1920 -- 4. The 1920s and small steps forward -- 5. The thirties, medicine, social insurance, and rehabilitation at the Mayo Clinic -- 6. World War II, Howard Rusk, Henry Kessler, and the Baruch Committee -- 7. The immediate postwar years : the VA, private rehabilitation facilities, unions, and a medical specialty in PM&R -- 8. Polio, FDR, and rehabilitation medicine -- 9. The expansive 1950s : rehabilitation medicine develops under the leadership of Mary Switzer and Howard Rusk -- 10. Rehabilitation leadership in the turbulent 1960s and the end of an era -- 11. The 1970s : vulnerability, new leadership, and the disability movement -- 12. The 1970s : congressional leadership and the golden era for comprehensive rehabilitation and disability policy -- 13. The 1980s : Medicare expansion, rehabilitation research at NIH, and the maturation of rehabilitation medicine -- 14. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and comprehensive rehabilitation medicine -- 15. A brief epilogue

Breeden reviews 'A History of Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy' by Harold D. Langley.