Book ID: CBB072800502

Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China (2014)

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This volume examines important aspects of China''s century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects-disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people''s health-organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the book's significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating western medicine, the improvements in medical health and services during the long Sino-Japanese war, and the important role of the Chine.

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Review Shenglan Li (2016) Review of "Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China". Social History of Medicine (pp. 188-190). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Veronica Pearson (2013) The Development of Psychiatric Services in China: Christianity, Communism, and Community. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China (pp. 146-170). unapi

Chapter Michelle Renshaw (2014) The Evolution of the Hospital in Twentieth-Century China. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Bridie Andrews (2014) Conclusions: The History of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Carol Benedict (2014) Tobacco Smoking and Health in Twentieth-Century China. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Xi Gao (2014) Foreign Models of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Mary Brown Bullock (2014) A case study of transnational flows of Chinese medical professionals: China medical board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Lincoln Chen; Ling Chen (2014) China's Exceptional Health Transitions: Overcoming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Xiaoping Fang (2014) Barefoot Doctors and the Provision of Rural Health Care. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Miriam Gross; Kawai Fan (2014) Schistosomiasis. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Daqing Zhang (2014) Changing Patterns of Diseases and Longevity: The Evolution of Health in Twentieth-Century Beijing. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Volker Scheid; Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei (2014) The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Liping Bu (2014) John B. Grant: Public Health and State Medicine. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Rachel Core (2014) Tuberculosis Control in Shanghai: Bringing Health to the Masses, 1928-Present. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Xinzhong Yu (2014) Epidemics and Public Health in Twentieth-century China: Plague, Smallpox, and AIDS. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Tina Phillips Johnson; Yi-Li Wu (2014) Maternal and Child Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century China. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Nicole Elizabeth Barnes; John R. Watt (2014) The Influence of War on China's Modern Health Systems. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

Chapter Sonya Grypma; Chen Zheng (2014) The Development of Modern Nursing in China. In: Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Andrews, Bridie J.
Benedict, Carol
Bullock, Mary Brown
Chen, Ling
Core, Rachel
Fan, Ka-wai
Journals
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
Acropolis
Churchill Livingstone
Ohio University Press
Capella University
Concepts
Medicine
Osteopathic medicine
Public health
Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
Physicians; doctors
Philosophy of medicine
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
China
United States
Ohio (U.S.)
Republic of China (1912-1949)
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