Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963

A Medicine of Revolution

By:

Kim Taylor

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Hardback

Series:

Needham Research Institute Series

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Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party. The political, economic and social motives which drove this promotion are analyzed and the extraordinary role that Chinese medicine was meant to play in Mao Zedong's revolution is fully explored for the first time, making a major contribution to the history of Chinese medicine.

Author Biography:

Kim Taylor is an affiliated scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Her research interests include the history of disease, medicine and the imperial world and nineteenth and twentieth-century Chinese medicine.

Release date NZ

December 9th, 2004

Author

Kim Taylor

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

3 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

252

Series

Needham Research Institute Series

Dimensions

156x234x17

ISBN-13

9780415345125

Product ID

3867153

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