"The Making of a Renowned Doctor: The Early Experiences of Edmund Dipper (1871-1919)"/ Huang Tian 黃田 and Wang Yi 王怡

https://www.sciengine.com/CAHST/doi/10.3724/SP.J.1461.2024.02091

This article belongs to volume 8, issue 2 of the Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology, 2024

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Abstract:

Dr. Edmund Dipper, a distinguished German doctor practicing in China during the tumultuous decades of the 1920s and 1930s, rose to near-legendary status during the Republican era. Yet, the historical trajectory leading to his acclaim remains shrouded in conflicting narratives. Dipper’s formative years demonstrate that his success in China stemmed from a multifaceted background encompassing education, religion, and military service. This was coupled with an unwavering commitment to excellence in medical practice and adaptability and resourcefulness in navigating cross-cultural settings. These factors allowed him to successfully avoid strife between church factions when managing the Faber Hospital. Furthermore, Dipper’s remarkable intercultural acumen enabled him to seize a crucial historical opportunity. By adeptly navigating the German Hospital through the repatriation of German citizens after China declared war on Germany in 1917, he not only preserved his own standing but also safeguarded the hospital’s key personnel. This strategic maneuvering laid the groundwork for his illustrious career trajectory. Dipper epitomizes a subset of Western doctors in China during this era, underscoring the imperative to further explore their nuanced historical contributions.

"During the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and meaning. The contributors to this volume examine occasions when intermediaries responded creatively to aspects of Chinese medicine, whether by trying to pass them on or to draw on them in furtherance of their own interests. Practitioners in Japan, at the imperial court, and in early and late Enlightenment Europe therefore responded to translations creatively, sometimes attempting to build bridges of understanding that often collapsed but left innovation in their wake"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Translating Chinese medical ways in the early modern period / Harold J. Cook -- Travels of a Chinese pulse treatise : the Latin and French translations of the Tuzhu maijue bianzhen 圖註脈訣辨真 (1650s-1730s) / Marta Hanson and Gianna Pomata -- Chocolate in China : interweaving cultural histories of an imperfectly connected world / Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros -- Rediscovering Willem Ten Rhijne's de acupunctura : the transformation of Chinese acupuncture in Japan / Wei Yu Wayne Tan -- Domesticating moxa : the reception of moxibustion in a late seventeenth-century German medical journal / Margaret D. Garber -- Epidemics and epistemology in early modern Japan : Japanese responses to Chinese writings on warm epidemics and sand-rashes / Daniel Trambaiolo -- The Montpellier version of sphygmology : classical Chinese medicine and vitalism / Motoichi Terada.

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