Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Andrews, Bridie; Bullock, Mary Brown

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens." - The Lancet 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 Chinese consumer. This is a thought-provoking read for health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253014948
• Artikelnr.: 42935161

Autorenporträt

Bridie Andrews is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University. Mary Brown Bullock is Chair of the China Medical Board and Executive Vice-Chancellor of Duke-Kunshan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Health Transitions
1. China's Exceptional Health Transitions: Overcoming the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse / Lincoln Chen and Chen Ling
2. Changing Patterns of Diseases and Longevity: The evolution of health in
20th century Beijing / Zhang Daqing
3. Maternal and Child Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-Century China /
Yi-li Wu and Tina Johnson
4. Tobacco Smoking and Health in Twentieth-Century China / Carol Benedict
Part 2: Disease Transitions
5. Epidemics and Public Health in Twentieth-Century China / Yu Xinzhong
6. Schistosomiasis / Miriam Gross and Fan Ka Wai
7. Tuberculosis control in Shanghai: bringing health to the masses,
1928-present / Rachel Core
8. The Development of Psychiatric Services in China: Christianity,
Communism and Community / Veronica Pearson
Part 3: Adaptations and Innovations
9. Foreign Models of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Part One / Gao Xi
10. John B. Grant: Public Health and State Medicine / Bu Liping
11. The Influence of War on China's Modern Health Systems / Nicole Barnes
and John Watt
12. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine / Volker Scheid and Sean
Hsiang-lin Lei
13. Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care / Fang Xiaoping
Part 4: Professional Transitions
14. A Case Study of Transnational Flows of Chinese Medical Professionals:
China Medical Board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows / Mary Brown Bullock
15. The Development of Modern Nursing in China / Sonya Grypma and Zhen
Cheng
16. The Evolution of the Hospital in Twentieth-Century China / Michelle
Renshaw
Conclusion
Appendix: Timeline
Notes
General Bibliography
Contributors
Index