Book ID: CBB001510512

Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945 (2013)

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Watt, John R. (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xii + 317 pp.; ill.
Language: English

In the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems. Epidemic diseases killed tens of millions, drought, flood and famine killed many more, and unhygienic birthing led to serious maternal and child mortality. The Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, and the nationwide War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945), imposed a further tide of misery. Troubled by this extensive trauma, a small number of healthcare reformers were able to save tens of thousands of lives, promote hygiene and sanitation, and begin to bring battlefield casualties, communicable diseases, and maternal child mortality under control. This study shows how biomedical physicians and public health practitioners were major contributors to the rise of modern China.

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Authors & Contributors
Gnoinska, Margaret K.
Yon Sil Yu
Gerth, Karl
Velitchkova, Ana
Kim, Eunjung
Thomaz, Luciana Costa Lima
Concepts
Communism
Health care
Hygiene
Public health
Medicine and government
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
China
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Argentina
United States
Netherlands
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