TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watt,John R.
TI  - Saving lives in wartime China: how medical reformers built modern healthcare systems amid war and epidemics, 1928-1945 
T2  - China studies
SN  - 9004256466
AV  - RA527 .W38 2014
U1  - 362.10951 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Boston, Brill
KW  - Public health
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Health care reform
KW  - Public Health
KW  - history
KW  - Public Health Administration
KW  - Health Care Reform
KW  - Patient Care Management
KW  - Santé publique
KW  - Chine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Services de santé
KW  - Réforme
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-322) and indexes; List of Photographs, Graphs, Maps, and Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Saving Lives in the Context of Disease, Poverty and War; Communicable Disease; Superstition; Patriarchal Oppression; Conduct of Warfare; Disregard for the Peasantry; The Argument; 1. Epidemics, Wars and Public Healthcare Advocacy in Republican China, 1911-1928; Epidemic Disease and Public Healthcare up to 1928; Lack of Scientific Rigor; Government Indifference; Injecting Science-based Thinking into Chinese Education and Public Policy; Conclusion: How the National Health Administration Made a Difference during the Nanjing Era, 1928-19373. Red Army Health Services in Jiangxi and on the Long March, 1927-1936; Creating Healthcare under the Stress of Civil War, 1927-1930; Healthcare during the First Two Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns, 1930-1931; Advancement of Healthcare during the Third Encirclement and Suppression Campaign, July to September 1931; Expanding the Scope of Healthcare: Red Army Healthcare School and Medical Supply Workshops; Campaign against Epidemic Disease; The Fourth and Fifth Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns, June 1932 to October 1934Health Care during the Long March from Jiangxi to Northwest China; Arrival of Red Army Forces in Northern Shaanxi and Revival of the United Front; Summary; 4. Japanese Invasion, Army Medicine, and the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps (CRCMRC), 1937-1942; Part I: Constructing a Modern Military Healthcare System; Army Medical Services up to 1937; Army Healthcare Units in Wartime: The Early Phase; The Chinese Red Cross and War Relief; Lin Kesheng and the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps; Organization of Emergency Medical Service Training School (EMSTS)Growth of Medical Relief Corps Work, 1938-1940; Part II: Politics Prevail over Healthcare; Reorganization of Chinese Red Cross Headquarters and Downgrading of Lin Kesheng; Lin's Ambitions for the EMSTS and the MRC; Problems in Army Medical Management; Lin's Move to Convert EMSTS and MRC into Centers of Modern Medicine; Political Troubles Assail Dr. Lin; Fights over Control of Assets, Lin in Burma and India, and Lin's Resignation from the MRC; Conclusion: Outcomes in the Balance
N2  - This study shows how a small number of medical reformers introduced modern healthcare services between 1928-1945 in China when Chinese people were suffering by the millions from infectious disease, maternal child mortality, and battlefield casualties
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