Medicine And Health In China

Author : Bridie Andrews,Mary Brown Bullock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : John Z. Bowers,Elizabeth Purcell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015000288384

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Medicine and Society in China by John Z. Bowers,Elizabeth Purcell Pdf

Author : Paul U. Unschuld
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520266131

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Medicine in China by Paul U. Unschuld Pdf

In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traced the history of documented health care from its earliest extant records to present developments. This edition is updated with a new preface which details the immense ideological intersections between Chinese and European medicines in the past 25 years.

Author : Paul Ulrich Unschuld
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0520050258

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Medicine in China by Paul Ulrich Unschuld Pdf

Unschuld provides a description and analysis of the contents and structure of traditional Chinese pharmaceutical literature. Unschuld has selected some one hundred titles in this far-reaching study.

Author : S. M. Hillier,Tony Jewell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Yi Hu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642399824

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Rural Health Care Delivery by Yi Hu Pdf

Diseases are everyday, ordinary occurrences intimately related to people’s daily lives. However, as the metaphor of the “Sick Man of East Asia” emerged against the backdrop of a weak modern China, health care and the curing of diseases were turned into grand state politics with far-reaching implications. This book, starting with the argument for diseases being metaphors, describes and interprets such incidents in China’s history as the Abolishment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Patriotic Hygiene Campaign and the Cooperative Medical Services. In an effort to reveal the internal logic of disease politics in the transformation of the state-people relationship, the book analyzes key aspects including the politicization and inclusion of diseases in state governance, the double disciplining of hygiene, legitimacy construction of the state, the remaking of the nationals, and the expansion of the “publicness” of the state. The book argues that disease politics in modern China has developed following the path from nationals to the people, and then to citizens, or from crisis politics and mobilization politics to life politics. In addition, a marked change has occurred in China’s state building: increasingly standard, rationalized and institutionalized means have been employed while the non-standard means, such as large-scale mobilization and ideological coercion, had been historically used in China.

Author : Xiaoping Fang
Publisher : Rochester Studies in Medical H
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1580464335

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Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China by Xiaoping Fang Pdf

The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.

Author : Liming Li,Qingwu Jiang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811365454

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Introduction to Public Health in China by Liming Li,Qingwu Jiang Pdf

This book introduces China’s public health work in detail, including its scope and characteristics, its history and evolution, its achievements and experience, the guiding principles for health development, health service system, public health education as well as science and technology of public health. In this book, opportunities and challenges of China’s public health are also presented, along with the prospects of future development. Over the sixty years, China has made remarkable achievements in the areas such as the national immunization program, maternal and child health, disease surveillance, the establishment of a public health information system and its application, as well as the improvement of people’s health, with tremendous experience and best practices being accumulated. In the new era, China starts a new journey towards building Healthy China, which is of great significance for the country’s public health development. The international community will have a better understanding of the history and current situation of China’s public health, as well as its achievements and contributions made to date, from reading this book.

Author : Joseph R. Quinn,John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Health planning
ISBN : UCAL:B4266430

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Medicine and Public Health in the People's Republic of China by Joseph R. Quinn,John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences Pdf

Author : Paul Ulrich Unschuld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Medicine, Chinese
ISBN : OCLC:813671499

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Medicine in China by Paul Ulrich Unschuld Pdf

Author : David M Lampton
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4289283

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Politics Medicine China/h by David M Lampton Pdf

Today, medical analysts and officials concerned with the United States and the Third World are searching for alternative means by which to bring needed health services to their people. For a mixture of reasons, including China's visible success, cultural resonance, and historical accident, the Chinese health experience has come to occupy an exalted place among the many possible alternatives. In the process of assessing the applicability of China's medical programs, however, insufficient attention has been directed toward analyzing the concrete results of past policies and the reasons for subsequent policy change. While this volume is specifically concerned with analyzing the reasons for policy change, and deriving a coherent view of the Chinese political process from that analysis, this discussion should provide the background -for informed public policy debate here and abroad. This study has the objective of examining and explaining changes in Chinese health care policy during the 1949-1977 period. The questions which this study seeks to answer are: why have policies changed, why have they moved in the directions they have, and what does all this tell us about the Chinese policy process? Seven important areas of medical policy will be considered: medical education, medical research, the structure of the health care delivery system, service financing, the conditions of physician employment, traditional medicine, and mass campaigns.

Author : Rama V. Baru,Madhurima Nundy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000697896

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Commercialisation of Medical Care in China by Rama V. Baru,Madhurima Nundy Pdf

This book explores the changing landscapes of the commercialisation of medical care in China. It is the first work of its kind, and discusses how the rise of market socialism, coupled with decollectivisation of agriculture and autonomisation of hospitals in rural and urban China, have fragmented the health service system. The book examines public hospital reforms; the rise of the medical–industrial complex; the emerging public–private partnerships in the health sector; the challenges of financing; and the growing inequalities in access to health services, to present a comprehensive view of the Chinese health care system over the last four decades. This topical book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Chinese studies, Chinese economy, public health, health management, social health and medicine, medical sociology, sociology, political economy, public policy and public administration as well as policymakers and practitioners.

Author : C. C. Chen,Jingzhi Zhen,Frederica M. Bunge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0520062981

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Medicine in Rural China by C. C. Chen,Jingzhi Zhen,Frederica M. Bunge Pdf

Author : David Luesink,William H. Schneider,Zhang Daqing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Medical policy
ISBN : 9781580469425

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China and the Globalization of Biomedicine by David Luesink,William H. Schneider,Zhang Daqing Pdf

Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery

Author : Sai Ma,Neeraj Sood
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780833044839

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A Comparison of the Health Systems in China and India by Sai Ma,Neeraj Sood Pdf

The world's two most populous countries, China and India, are undergoing dramatic demographic, societal, and economic transformations. However, the health status of residents of China and India still lags behind relative to other populations, and the health gains in each country have been uneven across subpopulations. Although they have achieved substantial advances in life expectancy and disease prevention since the middle of the 20th century, the Chinese and Indian health systems provide little protection against financial risk, and patient satisfaction is a lower priority than it should be. This paper compares the health systems of China and India to determine what approaches to improving health in these two countries do and do not work. In particular, the authors compare the health systems in China and India along three dimensions: policy levers, intermediate outcomes, and ultimate ends. The authors conclude that both countries must (1) restructure health care financing to reduce the burden of out-of-pocket medical care costs on individual patients; (2) increase access to care, especially in rural areas; (3) reduce dependence on fee-for-service contracts that promote overutilization of medical care; (4) build capacity for addressing and monitoring emerging diseases; and (5) match hospital capabilities with local needs.