Asen, Daniel (Author)
Luesink, David (Editor)
Schneider, William H. (Editor)
Zhang, Daqing (Editor)
University of Rochester Press
Physical Details: 288
Language: English
Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the firstbook to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's "Century of Humiliation" when imperialist powers dominated China's foreign policy and economy, forcing it to join global trends that included limited public health measures in the nineteenth century and government-sponsored healthcare in the twentieth. These external pressures, combined with a vast population immiserated by imperialism and the decline of the Chinese traditional economy, created extraordinary problems for biomedicine that were both unique to China and potentially applicable to other developing nations. In this book, scholars based in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom make the case that developments in biomedicine in China such as the discovery of new diseases, the opening of the medical profession to women, the mass production of vaccines, and the delivery ofhealthcare to poor rural areas should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery.CONTRIBUTORS: Daniel Asen, Nicole Barnes, Mary Augusta Brazelton, Gao Xi , He Xiaolian, Li Shenglan, David Luesink, William H. Schneider, Shi Yan, Yu Xinzhong,DAVID LUESINK is Assistant Professor of History at Sacred Heart University. WILLIAM H. SCHNEIDER is Professor Emeritus of History and Medical Humanities at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. ZHANG DAQING is Professor and Director, Institute of Medical Humanities at Peking University in Beijing.Table of ContentsIntroduction: China and the Globalization of Biomedicine - David LuesinkPART 1. HYGIENE AND DISEASE CONSTRUCTION IN LATE QING CHINAReflections on the Modernity of Sanitation Construction in the Late Qing Dynasty - Yu XinzhongDiscovering Diseases: Research on the Globalization of Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century China - Gao XiPART 2. THE INDIGENIZATION OF BIOMEDICINE IN REPUBLICAN CHINAGlobalizing Biomedicine through Sino-Japanese Networks: The Case of National Medical College, Beijing, 1912-1937 - Daniel AsenGlobalizing Biomedicine through Sino-Japanese Networks: The Case of National Medical College, Beijing, 1912-1937 - David LuesinkAn Abortive Amalgamation: Multiple Western-Style Doctors in Republican China, 1927-1937 - Shi YanShanghai's Female Doctors: A Discussion of the Gendered Politics of Modern Medical Professionalization - He XiaolianPART 3. THE SPREAD OF BIOMEDICINE TO SOUTHWEST CHINA, 1937-1945A Social History of Wartime Nursing Training in Hunan, 1937-1945 - Li ShenglanFrontiers of Immunology: Medical Migrations to Yunnan, Vaccine Research and Public Health During the War with Japan, 1937-1945 - Mary Augusta BrazeltonServing the People: Chen Zhiqian and the Sichuan Provincial Health Administration, 1939-1949 - Nicole BarnesAfterword: Western Medicine and Global Health - William H. SchneiderList of Chinese and Japanese Names and TermsNotes on Contributors
...MoreReview Hilary A. Smith (2021) Review of "China and the Globalization of Biomedicine". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 421-423).
Review Joshua A Hubbard (2020) Review of "China and the Globalization of Biomedicine". Social History of Medicine (pp. 1397-1399).
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