Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China

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 Chinese consumer. 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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Health Transitions 1. China's Exceptional Health Transitions: Overcoming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / Lincoln Chen and Chen Ling 2. Changing Patterns of Diseases and Longevity: The evolution of health in 20th century Beijing / Zhang Daqing 3. Maternal and Child Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-Century China / Yi-li Wu and Tina Johnson 4. Tobacco Smoking and Health in Twentieth-Century China / Carol Benedict Part 2: Disease Transitions 5. Epidemics and Public Health in Twentieth-Century China / Yu Xinzhong 6. Schistosomiasis / Miriam Gross and Fan Ka Wai 7. Tuberculosis control in Shanghai: bringing health to the masses, 1928-present / Rachel Core 8. The Development of Psychiatric Services in China: Christianity, Communism and Community / Veronica Pearson Part 3: Adaptations and Innovations 9. Foreign Models of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Part One / Gao Xi 10. John B. Grant: Public Health and State Medicine / Bu Liping 11. The Influence of War on China's Modern Health Systems / Nicole Barnes and John Watt 12. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine / Volker Scheid and Sean Hsiang-lin Lei 13. Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care / Fang Xiaoping Part 4: Professional Transitions 14. A Case Study of Transnational Flows of Chinese Medical Professionals: China Medical Board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows / Mary Brown Bullock 15. The Development of Modern Nursing in China / Sonya Grypma and Zhen Cheng 16. The Evolution of the Hospital in Twentieth-Century China / Michelle Renshaw Conclusion Appendix: Timeline Notes General Bibliography Contributors Index

About the Author :
Bridie Andrews is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University. Mary Brown Bullock is Chair of the China Medical Board and Executive Vice-Chancellor of Duke-Kunshan University.

Review :
"An important contribution to scholarship. Historians of medicine and public health in China will find it useful and [it] will become required reading on modern China for scholars interested in the history of public health, and particularly those interested in the Rockefeller Foundation." - Hilary A. Smith, Dickinson College