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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Science and civilization"”.

  1. Dead Bodies and Forensic Science: Cultures of Expertise in China, 1800-1949

    … collaboration of coroners, legal specialists, and literati-officials. After the fall of the Qing empire (1644-1911), successive governments of the Republican period (1912-1949) adopted the late imperial state's technologies of forensic examination in their attempts to institute a modern court …

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  2. From Sin to Science: The Cancer Revolution of the Nineteenth Century

    … century. From the 1870s to the 1890s, physicians and the public came to understand cancer in an entirely new light, founded upon the application of scientific principles, methods, and instruments to cancer medicine as well as upon a major change in the social perception of the disease. Cancer as …

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