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Author Renshaw, Michelle, author.

Title Accommodating the Chinese : the American hospital in China, 1880-1920 / Michelle Renshaw
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 312 pages) : illustrations
Series East Asia: history, politics, sociology, culture
East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
Contents The historical context -- The hospital-in time and space -- Chinese institutions the protestant missionaries met -- The physical hospital -- Early days-adapted buildings -- Putting down roots-the doctor-builder -- The arrival of architects -- Financing the hospital enterprise -- Who should pay? -- Who did pay? -- The patient's experience -- Entering a hospital -- Life on the ward
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-295) and index
Notes English text, with some terms in Chinese characters
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 18, 2016)
Subject Hospitals -- China -- History -- 19th century
Hospitals -- China -- History -- 20th century
Missions, Medical -- China -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Hospitals
Missions, Medical
China
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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