China and the Globalization of Biomedicine
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China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

David Luesink, William H. Schneider, Zhang Daqing

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China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

David Luesink, William H. Schneider, Zhang Daqing

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Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the first book to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's "Century of Humiliation" when imperialist powers dominated China's foreign policy and economy, forcing it to join global trends that included limited public health measures in the nineteenth century and government-sponsored healthcare in the twentieth. These external pressures, combined with a vast population immiserated by imperialism and the decline of the Chinese traditional economy, created extraordinary problems for biomedicine that were both unique to China and potentially applicable to other developing nations. In this book, scholars based in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom make the case that developments in biomedicine in China such as the discovery of new diseases, the opening of the medical profession to women, the mass production of vaccines, and the delivery of healthcare to poor rural areas should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery. CONTRIBUTORS: Daniel Asen, Nicole Barnes, Mary Augusta Brazelton, Gao Xi, He Xiaolian, Li Shenglan, David Luesink, William H. Schneider, Shi Yan, Yu Xinzhong, DAVID LUESINK is Assistant Professor of History at Sacred Heart University. WILLIAM H. SCHNEIDER is Professor Emeritus of History and Medical Humanities at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. ZHANG DAQING is Professor and Director, Institute of Medical Humanities at Peking University in Beijing.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction: China and the Globalization of Biomedicine: David Luesink
  11. Part One. Hygiene and Disease Construction in Late Qing China
  12. Part Two. The Indigenization of Biomedicine in Republican China
  13. Part Three. The Spread of Biomedicine to Southwest China, 1937-1945
  14. Afterword: Western Medicine and Global Health: William H. Schneider
  15. List of Chinese and Japanese Terms and Names
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. List of Contributors
  18. Index
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[author missing]. (2019). China and the Globalization of Biomedicine (1st ed.). Boydell & Brewer. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2004964/china-and-the-globalization-of-biomedicine-pdf (Original work published 2019)

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[author missing]. (2019) 2019. China and the Globalization of Biomedicine. 1st ed. Boydell & Brewer. https://www.perlego.com/book/2004964/china-and-the-globalization-of-biomedicine-pdf.

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[author missing] (2019) China and the Globalization of Biomedicine. 1st edn. Boydell & Brewer. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2004964/china-and-the-globalization-of-biomedicine-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

MLA 7 Citation

[author missing]. China and the Globalization of Biomedicine. 1st ed. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.