Medical transitions in twentieth-century China [electronic resource] / edited by Bridie Andrews and Mary Brown Bullock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

China's exceptional health transitions : overcoming the four horsemen of the apocalypse / Lincoln Chen and Ling Chen -- Changing patterns of diseases and longevity : the evolution of health in twentieth-century Beijing / Daqing Zhang -- Maternal and child health in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century China / Tina Phillips Johnson and Yi-Li Wu -- Tobacco smoking and health in twentieth-century China / Carol Benedict -- Epidemics and public health in twentieth-century China : plague, smallpox, and AIDS / Xinzhong Yu -- Schistosomiasis / Miriam Gross and Kawai Fan -- Tuberculosis control in Shanghai : bringing health to the masses, 1928-present / Rachel Core -- The development of psychiatric services in China : Christianity, Communism, and community / Veronica Pearson -- Foreign models of medicine in twentieth-century China / Xi Gao -- John B. Grant : public health and state medicine / Liping Bu -- The influence of war on China's modern health systems / Nicole Elizabeth Barnes and John R. Watt -- The institutionalization of Chinese medicine / Volker Scheid and Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei -- Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care / Xiaoping Fang -- A case study of transnational flows of Chinese medical professionals : China medical board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows / Mary Brown Bullock -- The development of modern nursing in China / Sonya Grypma and Cheng Zhen -- The evolution of the hospital in twentieth-century China / Michelle Renshaw -- Conclusions : the history of medicine in twentieth-century China / Bridie Andrews.

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