Barefoot doctors and western medicine in China /

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This book ultimately offers a powerful and carefully contextualized critique of conventional views on the role of barefoot doctors, their legacy, and their impact, both in rural areas and in China as a whole, while making theoretical contributions to the Chinese social historiography of medicine.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fang, Xiaoping
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2012.
Colección:Rochester studies in medical history.
Temas:
Medicine, Chinese > China > History.
Medicine > China > Cross-cultural studies.
Diffusion of innovations.
Delivery of Health Care > history
Social Change > history
Health Policy > history
Diffusion of Innovation
History, 20th Century
Médecine chinoise > Chine > Histoire.
Médecine > Chine > Études transculturelles.
Innovations > Diffusion.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MEDICAL > History.
Medicine.
Medicine, Chinese.
China
China.
Cross-cultural studies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Village healers, medical pluralism, and state medicine
  • 2. Revolutionizing knowledge transmission structures
  • 3. Pharmaceuticals reach the villages
  • 4. Healing styles and medical beliefs : the consumption of Chinese and Western medicines
  • 5. Relocating illness : the shift from home bedside to hospital ward
  • 6. Group identity, power relationships, and medical legitimacy
  • 7. Conclusion
  • appendix 1. The organization of the three-tiered medical system in rural China, 1968-83
  • appendix 2. Common medicines in Chinese villages during the 1960s-70s.

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