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China in global health : past and present / Mary Augusta Brazelton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brazelton, Mary Augusta, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in global China.
- Cambridge elements. Elements in global China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--China--History--20th century.
- Medical care.
- World health--History--20th century.
- World health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (77 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Mary Brazelton argues that the territories and peoples associated with China have played vital roles in the emergence of modern international health. In the early twentieth century, repeated epidemic outbreaks in China justified interventions by transnational organizations; these projects shaped strategies for international health. China has also served as a space of creativity and reinvention, in which administrators developed new models of health care during decades of war and revolution, even as traditional practitioners presented alternatives to Western biomedicine. The 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China introduced a new era of socialist internationalism, as well as new initiatives to establish connections across the non-aligned world using medical diplomacy. After 1978, the post-socialist transition gave rise to new configurations of health governance. The rich and varied history of Chinese involvement in global health offers a means to make sense of present-day crises.
- Contents:
- Introduction : China and the making of global health
- The world's laboratory
- Medical circulations in the Cold War
- Post-socialist pandemics in a global China.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 31, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781009051040
- 1009051040
- 9781009051248
- 1009051245
- 9781009042666
- 1009042661
- OCLC:
- 1481785120
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