| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Rochester Studies in Medical History ; v. 23 |
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Rochester studies in medical history.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Village healers, medical pluralism, and state medicine -- 2. Revolutionizing knowledge transmission structures -- 3. Pharmaceuticals reach the villages -- 4. Healing styles and medical beliefs : the consumption of Chinese and Western medicines -- 5. Relocating illness : the shift from home bedside to hospital ward -- 6. Group identity, power relationships, and medical legitimacy -- 7. Conclusion -- appendix 1. The organization of the three-tiered medical system in rural China, 1968-83 -- appendix 2. Common medicines in Chinese villages during the 1960s-70s |
| Summary |
This book ultimately offers a powerful and carefully contextualized critique of conventional views on the role of barefoot doctors, their legacy, and their impact, both in rural areas and in China as a whole, while making theoretical contributions to the Chinese social historiography of medicine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medicine, Chinese -- China -- History
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Medicine -- China -- Cross-cultural studies
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Diffusion of innovations.
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Delivery of Health Care -- history
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Social Change -- history
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Health Policy -- history
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Diffusion of Innovation
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History, 20th Century
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Diffusion of innovations
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Medicine
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Medicine, Chinese
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| SUBJECT |
China |
| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781580467889 |
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1580467881 |
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9781580468961 |
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1580468969 |
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