|aThe afterlife of images :|btranslating the pathological body between China and the West /|cLarissa N. Heinrich.
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|aDurham :|bDuke University Press,|c2008.
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|axiv, 222 p., 8 p. of plates :|bill. (some col.) ;|c24 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-212) and index.
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|aHow China became the "cradle of smallpox": transformations in discourse -- The pathological body: Lam Qua's medical portraiture -- The pathological empire: early medical photography in China -- "What's hard for the eye to see": anatomical aesthetics from Benjamin Hobson to Lu Xun -- Epilogue: Through the microscope.