The Popularity of the Mechanistic View of Body in the Popular Periodicals of the Republic of China
The popular periodicals in the Republican period introduced massive new knowledge and images of body in three main aspects.The first was to present and introduce the body's internal structure and related knowledge to the public.The second was to consider the body as an entity composed of substances including water,proteins,and trace elements.The last one was to describe the body as a delicate machine or a running factory.This indicated that a new conception of body which was different from the Chinese tra-ditional one emerged and became popular in the public during this period.This new concept presented the body as visualized,material-ized,reductionistic,measurable,and mechanized.The emergence of this view was inseparable from the introduction of modern Western science especially physiology and medicine.Meanwhile,it also facilitated the acceptance of the theory and the clinical practice of West-ern medicine by Chinese people.
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