Book ID: CBB037739409

Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History (2020)

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Soon, Wayne (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 328
Language: English

In 1938, one year into the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese military found itself in dire medical straits. Soldiers were suffering from deadly illnesses, and were unable to receive blood transfusions for their wounds. The urgent need for medical assistance prompted an unprecedented flowering of scientific knowledge in China and Taiwan throughout the twentieth century. Wayne Soon draws on archives from three continents to argue that Overseas Chinese were key to this development, utilizing their global connections and diasporic links to procure much-needed money, supplies, and medical expertise. The remarkable expansion of care and education that they spurred saved more than four million lives and trained more than fifteen thousand medical personnel. Moreover, the introduction of military medicine shifted biomedicine out of elite, urban civilian institutions and laboratories and transformed it into an adaptive field-based practice for all. Universal care, practical medical education, and mobile medicine are all lasting legacies of this effort.

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Authors & Contributors
Nicholas Anthony Autiello
Taomo Zhou
Foster, Shawn Xiaoyan-Lu
Paramore, Kiri
Ying Jia Tan
Keck, Frédéric
Concepts
Medicine and society
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Public health
Medicine
East Asia, civilization and culture
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
China
Taiwan
Japan
United States
Vietnam
Korea
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