Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China.

Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Health Transitions -- 1 China's Exceptional Health Transitions: Overcoming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- 2 Changing Patterns of Diseases and Longevity: The Evolution of Health in Twentieth-Century Beijing -- 3 Maternal and Child Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century China -- 4 Tobacco Smoking and Health in Twentieth-Century China -- Part II. Disease Transitions -- 5 Epidemics and Public Health in Twentieth-Century China: Plague, Smallpox, and AIDS -- 6 Schistosomiasis -- 7 Tuberculosis Control in Shanghai: Bringing Health to the Masses, 1928-Present -- 8 The Development of Psychiatric Services in China: Christianity, Communism, and Community -- Part III. Adaptations and Innovations -- 9 Foreign Models of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China -- 10 John B. Grant: Public Health and State Medicine -- 11 The Influence of War on China's Modern Health Systems -- 12 The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine -- 13 Barefoot Doctors and the Provision of Rural Health Care -- Part IV. Professional Transitions -- 14 A Case Study of Transnational Flows of Chinese Medical Professionals: China Medical Board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows -- 15 The Development of Modern Nursing in China -- 16 The Evolution of the Hospital in Twentieth-Century China -- Conclusions: The History of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China -- Appendix: Timeline -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Intended for an audience of health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China, the book is one of three commissioned by the China Medical Board to mark its centennial in 2014.

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