Health Care And Traditional Medicine In China 1800 1982

Author : S. M. Hillier,Tony Jewell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136571688

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Health Care and Traditional Medicine in China 1800-1982 by S. M. Hillier,Tony Jewell Pdf

First published in 1983. Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People's Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the conflicts of State bureaucracy, Party and medical profession in their attempts to match political objectives in health care to resources available. An outline of the theory of Chinese traditional medicine, together with detailed accounts of acupuncture and plant drugs are also discussed, as are specific features of the health care system, such as population control, medical education, nutrition and psychiatry.

Author : Bridie Andrews
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780774824347

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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 by Bridie Andrews Pdf

Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.

Author : Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317748632

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Health Insurance Reforms in Asia by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk Pdf

This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It adopts a new revised version of the theory of historical institutionalism to compare and explain the divergent reform paths in these three places over the past three decades. It also examines forces that propel institutional change. The book provides three detailed case studies on the development of health care financing reforms and the politics of implementing them. It shows that health care systems in Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong were the products of Western presence in the nineteenth century. It illustrates how greater attention is paid to the roles played by ideas, actors, and environmental triggers without abandoning the core assumptions that political institutions and policy feedback remain central to impact health care financing reforms. It shows that health care financing reform is shaped by a complex interplay of forces over time. It also provides the most updated material about health care financing reforms in Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The central argument of this book is that health care financing reform is both an evolving process responding to changing circumstances and a political process revealing an intricate interplay of power relationships and diverse interests. It shows that institutional changes in health care financing system can be incremental but transformative in nature. It argues that social policies will continue to develop and welfare states will continue to adapt and evolve in order to cope with new risks and needs. This book sheds new lights on understanding the politics of health care financing reform and sources and modes of institutional change.

Author : Marilynn M Rosenthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429712708

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Health Care In The People's Republic Of China by Marilynn M Rosenthal Pdf

The Chinese health care system is deeply rooted in a traditional, agricultural way of life, but since the late 1970s it has been increasingly influenced by the dynamics of a modernizing society. Dr. Rosenthal, using data collected through interviews, small-scale surveys, and the Chinese press, examines how Chinese medicine is being transformed. She

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Medicine
ISBN : STANFORD:36105214548963

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National Library of Medicine Current Catalog by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Xiaoqing Ye
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780892641628

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The Dianshizhai Pictorial by Xiaoqing Ye Pdf

Brings to life the visual culture of the "nightless city," late nineteenth-century Shanghai, through analyses of more than one hundred drawn depictions

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015010653791

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Bibliography of the History of Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315516288

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Financing Healthcare in China by Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk Pdf

China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population, an inherently discriminatory design of the health insurance system, the disorder of drug distribution system and an immature legal system constrain the Chinese government from realizing its goal of universal health insurance coverage in the long run. This book uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine China's pathway to universal health insurance coverage since the mid-1980s. It pays crucial attention to the processes of transforming China's healthcare financing system into the basic social medical insurance system alongside rapid socio-economic changes. Financing Healthcare in China will interest researchers and government and think-tank officials interested in the state of healthcare reforms in China. Healthcare specialists outside of East Asia may also be interested in its general study of healthcare in developing countries. Scholars and students interested in the healthcare field will also find this useful.

Author : Kim Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134283606

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Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963 by Kim Taylor Pdf

Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party. The political, economic and social motives which drove this promotion are analyzed and the extraordinary role that Chinese medicine was meant to play in Mao Zedong's revolution is fully explored for the first time, making a major contribution to the history of Chinese medicine.

Author : Kim Taylor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415345125

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Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63 by Kim Taylor Pdf

Kim Taylor looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, sidelined medical practice of the early 20th century, to an essential and high profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party.

Author : Mike Saks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134978571

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Professions and the Public Interest by Mike Saks Pdf

The importance and influence of professions in public life has grown increasingly over the twentieth century but the question of whether they subordinate their own self-interests to the public interest has yet to be adequately researched within a major sociological perspective. In Professions and the Public Interest Mike Saks develops a theoretical and methodological framework for assessing professional groups in Western society. The empirical applicability of this framework is demonstrated with particular reference to a novel case study of the response of the medical profession to acupuncture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Professions and the Public Interest will be of great interest to all lecturers and students of social policy, sociology, and medical sociology as well as to professional groups and their members.

Author : Bridie Andrews,Mary Brown Bullock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780253014948

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Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China by Bridie Andrews,Mary Brown Bullock Pdf

“Rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens.” —The Lancet 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. This is a thought-provoking read for health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China.

Author : Grace Xueqin Ma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780313388514

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The Culture of Health by Grace Xueqin Ma Pdf

This book examines a range of current health care issues affecting Asian Americans and explores ways to improve the quality of their health care. The author covers a variety of topics, including sociocultural approaches to health, illness, and health care; clients' experiences in accessing health care services; the important role of alternative practices in primary health care; and limitations on the professional development and practice of Asian health care providers. The book concludes with a look at challenges, implications, and research directions for Asian American health care improvements in the 21st century. Health and illness always have multiple cultural and social dimensions that affect medical practices. Because we face rapidly evolving health care choices, it is important to understand the influence of sociocultural factors on health, illness, and health care. The author emphasizes the cultural and socioeconomic factors that are shaping health-seeking behaviors of Asian Americans and the interrelationships among health service providers within the Asian American community. The book criticizes U.S. health care policy for discouraging the immigration of foreign medical-school graduates and limiting the number of language-competent physicians who have dual training in Western and traditional healing techniques. The book provides insights into the important role of traditional medicine in primary health care and also offers a critical analysis of managed care and its implications for Asian American health care in the 21st century.

Author : Franklin Parker,Betty June Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 893 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351378871

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Education in the People's Republic of China, Past and Present by Franklin Parker,Betty June Parker Pdf

The 3,053 entries in this work, first published in 1986, comprise the compliers' attempt at a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the most useful locatable books, monographs, pamphlets, regularly and occasionally issued serials, scholarly papers, and selected newspaper accounts dealing in a significant way with formal and informal, public and private education in the People's Republic of China before and since 1949.

Author : Arthur Kleinman,James L. Watson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0804753148

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SARS in China by Arthur Kleinman,James L. Watson Pdf

This book examines the structure and impact of the SARS epidemic, and its short- and medium-range implications for an interconnected, globalized world. In so doing, it poses a question of the greatest possible significance: Can we learn from SARS before the next pandemic?