The afterlife of images : translating the pathological body between China and the West / Larissa N. Heinrich.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

xiv, 222 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-212) and index.

How 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.