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Barefoot doctors and western medicine in China / Xiaoping Fang

By: Fang, Xiaoping.

Series: Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015Description: xii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781580465212.Subject(s): Medicine, Chinese -- China -- History | Medicine -- China -- Cross-cultural studiesGenre/Form: Print books.

Contents:

Introduction -- Village healers, medical pluralism, and state medicine -- Revolutionizing knowledge transmission structures -- Pharmaceuticals reach the villages -- Healing styles and medical beliefs : the consumption of Chinese and Western medicines -- Relocating illness : the shift from home bedside to hospital ward -- Group identity, power relationships, and medical legitimacy -- Conclusion -- The organization of the three-tiered medical system in rural China, 1968-83 -- Common medicines in Chinese villages during the 1960s-70s

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Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
On Shelf	R601 .F29 2015 (Browse shelf)	Available		AU0000000006126

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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Barefoot doctors and western medicine in China / Xiaoping Fang

By: Fang, Xiaoping.