Medical transitions in twentieth-century China:
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Weitere Verfasser: Andrews, Bridie 1961- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington, IN Indiana University Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:China Medical Board centennial series
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Health Transitions; 1 China''s Exceptional Health Transitions: Overcoming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; 2 Changing Patterns of Diseases and Longevity: The Evolution of Health in Twentieth-Century Beijing; 3 Maternal and Child Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century China; 4 Tobacco Smoking and Health in Twentieth-Century China; Part II. Disease Transitions; 5 Epidemics and Public Health in Twentieth-Century China: Plague, Smallpox, and AIDS; 6 Schistosomiasis
7 Tuberculosis Control in Shanghai: Bringing Health to the Masses, 1928-Present8 The Development of Psychiatric Services in China: Christianity, Communism, and Community; Part III. Adaptations and Innovations; 9 Foreign Models of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China; 10 John B. Grant: Public Health and State Medicine; 11 The Influence of War on China''s Modern Health Systems; 12 The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine; 13 Barefoot Doctors and the Provision of Rural Health Care; Part IV. Professional Transitions
14 A Case Study of Transnational Flows of Chinese Medical Professionals: China Medical Board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows15 The Development of Modern Nursing in China; 16 The Evolution of the Hospital in Twentieth-Century China; Conclusions: The History of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China; Appendix: Timeline; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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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