Medical transitions in twentieth-century China / edited by Bridie Andrews and Mary Brown Bullock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrews, Bridie, editor.

Bullock, Mary Brown, editor.

Series:

China Medical Board Centennial Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--China--History--20th century.

Medicine.

Medical care--China--History--20th century.

Medical care.

Public health--China--History--20th century.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>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 Chin

Contents:

China's exceptional health transitions : overcoming the four horsemen of the apocalypse / Lincoln Chen and Ling Chen

Changing patterns of diseases and longevity : the evolution of health in twentieth-century Beijing / Daqing Zhang

Maternal and child health in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century China / Tina Phillips Johnson and Yi-Li Wu

Tobacco smoking and health in twentieth-century China / Carol Benedict

Epidemics and public health in twentieth-century China : plague, smallpox, and AIDS / Xinzhong Yu

Schistosomiasis / Miriam Gross and Kawai Fan

Tuberculosis control in Shanghai : bringing health to the masses, 1928-present / Rachel Core

The development of psychiatric services in China : Christianity, Communism, and community / Veronica Pearson

Foreign models of medicine in twentieth-century China / Xi Gao

John B. Grant : public health and state medicine / Liping Bu

The influence of war on China's modern health systems / Nicole Elizabeth Barnes and John R. Watt

The institutionalization of Chinese medicine / Volker Scheid and Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei

Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care / Xiaoping Fang

A case study of transnational flows of Chinese medical professionals : China medical board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows / Mary Brown Bullock

The development of modern nursing in China / Sonya Grypma and Cheng Zhen

The evolution of the hospital in twentieth-century China / Michelle Renshaw

Conclusions : the history of medicine in twentieth-century China / Bridie Andrews.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01494-8

OCLC:

900008165