Article ID: CBB000933754

Mapping Modern Medicine in China: Impact of the Rockefeller Foundation (2009)

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Zhang, Daqing (Author)


Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Volume: 28
Pages: 137--155


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Language: Chinese

The three surveys on health-care and medicine in China and by the China Medical commission of the Rockefeller Foundationa nd its effect on China's medical education and health care are reiewed in detail accordign to the archives of the foundation and other historical sources. These surveys not only prove th e possiblity of the foundation's Chinese medical project, but also provide much information for American m medical citrcles to understand the situation of health care and medical education in China.

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Authors & Contributors
Fearnley, Lyle
Seaton, Andrew
Wilkinson, Lise
Whooley, Owen
Westmore, Ann
Valone, David A.
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Slavic Review
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Health and History
Publishers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University Press of America
University of Rochester Press
University of Michigan Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Duke University Press
Concepts
Medicine
Public health
Medical education and teaching
Tropical medicine
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
East Asia, civilization and culture
People
McNamara, Robert Strange
Yang, Chongrui
Salk, Jonas Edward
Gregg, Alan
Foege, William H.
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
China
Edinburgh
West Germany
Sri Lanka
United States
Canada
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
UNICEF
World Bank
Faculdade de Medicina de São Paulo
World Health Organization (WHO)
Dalhousie University
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