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Dung-Sheng Chen's book is an important addition to the growing literature on the question of why late developing...

The history and development of public health have attracted a growing scholarly interest. Numerous studies have...

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the most consistent aspect of Chinese history has been change, such as political...

"Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life." East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International...

Ever since James Watson set aside between 3% and 5% of his annual Human Genome Project budget 1 to promote the study...

Ever since Joseph Needham published the first volume of Science and Civilisation in China in 1954, many important...

Chinese medicine can be found in many places around the world. For example, the city where I live, Nashville,...

Disease, the object of so much of medical practice, not only happens to human beings, it also assumes knowable forms...

The contemporary Korean ambition to globalize traditional medicine is often reported by the country's leading...

Predicting the future of an unborn child—its sex, its health, its defects—is hardly a purely technical intervention.