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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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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