Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fang, Xiaoping
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medicine, Chinese.
Medicine.
Delivery of Health Care > history.
Medicine > China > Cross-cultural studies.
Medicine, Chinese > China > History.
China.
History.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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