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Xiaoping Fang Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China
- Publication Name
- Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China
- Title
- Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1580465218
- EAN
- 9781580465212
- ISBN
- 9781580465212
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Medical Press
- Genre
- Medicine
- Topic
- History
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 01/04/2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Rochester Studies in Medical History Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 16.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 310 Pages
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In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of health-care delivery for the rural masses. Soon every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide basic medical care, creating a national network of health-care services for the very first time. The barefoot doctors were portrayed nationally and internationally as revolutionary heroes, wading undaunted through rice paddies to bring effective, low-cost care to poor peasants. This book is the first comprehensive study to look beyond the nostalgia dominating present scholarship on public health in China and offer a powerful and carefully contextualized critique of the prevailing views on the role of barefoot doctors, their legacy, and their impact. Drawing on primary documents from the Cultural Revolution and personal interviews with patients and doctors, Xiaoping Fang examines the evidence within the broader history of medicine in revolutionary and postreform China. He finds that rather than consolidating traditional Chinese medicine, as purported by government propaganda, the barefoot doctor program introduced modern Western medicine to rural China, effectively modernizing established methods and forms of care. As a result, this volume retrieves from potential oblivion a critical part of the history of Western medicine in China. Xiaoping Fang is assistant professor of Chinese history at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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Publisher
University of Rochester Medical Press
ISBN-10
1580465218
ISBN-13
9781580465212
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219362558
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Series
Rochester Studies in Medical History Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
310 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
23
Lc Classification Number
Ra418.3.C
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This illuminating study corrects what we thought we knew about that evanescent character the Barefoot Doctor, invented in 1968, widely acclaimed inside and outside China, and officially discarded in 1985. Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China is based not only on research on the ground, but on a thorough study of the pertinent scholarly literature., Xiaoping Fang gives the English-reading world a reliable account of the barefoot doctor movement and its tremendous importance in the creation of the Chinese health-care system. Contrary to received opinion, Fang shows how the movement prompted a decline in the popularity of traditional healing methods while promoting biomedicine in the countryside. This study greatly advances our understanding of the history of medicine in modern China. --Bridie Andrews, associate professor of history, Bentley University The barefoot doctors were a historic advance in the provision of health care to hundreds of millions of people in China and a model in extending and improving health services to hundreds of millions more around the world. Dr. Fang Xiaoping tells this extraordinary story with a strong sense of the ethos of the times, in China and beyond. I commend his important volume to those who seek to understand the history of medicine, China, and advances in the delivery of health care to the poor and vulnerable around the world. --Victor W. Sidel, MD, former president, American Public Health Association (APHA) The focus on one village in Hangzhou Prefecture gives the book a specificity and immediateness that bring history to life in sometimes dramatic ways....Recommended. CHOICE Paints a richly textured picture of medicine in rural China....This relatively short book is a gem....An excellent book that deserves to be widely read. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW This book will be of wide interest to anyone wishing to understand the state of health care in China today and the roots of its successes and dilemmas. PACIFIC AFFAIRS Discussing the barefoot doctor program, processes of knowledge transmission, pharmaceutical prices and supply chains, medical consumption, group identity and professionalism, and institutional shifts, this book successfully advances our understanding of how the three-tier medical network was gradually set up in China's countryside. THE CHINA JOURNAL This illuminating study corrects what we thought we knew about that evanescent character the Barefoot Doctor, invented in 1968, widely acclaimed inside and outside China, and officially discarded in 1985. Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China is based not only on research on the ground, but on a thorough study of the pertinent scholarly literature. THE CHINA REVIEW
Table of Content
IntroductionVillage Healers, Medical Pluralism, and State MedicineRevolutionizing Knowledge Transmission StructuresPharmaceuticals Reach the VillagesHealing Styles and Medical Beliefs: The Consumption of Chinese and Western MedicinesRelocating Illness: The Shift from Home Bedside to Hospital WardGroup Identity, Power Relationships, and Medical LegitimacyConclusionAppendixesThe Organization of the Three-Tiered Medical System in Rural China, 1968-83Common Medicines in Chinese Villages during the 1960s-70s
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Health Care Delivery, Modern / 20th Century, General, Asia / China, History
Dewey Decimal
610.951
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Medical, History
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