Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63: A Medicine of Revolution

Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63: A Medicine of Revolution
ISBN-10
041534512X
ISBN-13
9780415345125
Category
Medical
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2005-01-01
Publisher
Psychology Press
Author
Kim Taylor

Description

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.

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