Shi Yan China and the Globalization of Biomedicine (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: China and the Globalization of BiomedicineCondition: NewEAN: 9781580469425ISBN: 9781580469425Publisher: University of Rochester PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/15/2019Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1580469426Description: Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the peripheryToday 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 firstbook 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 ofhealthcare 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USContributor: Li Shenglan (Contributions by), Shi Yan (Contributions by), Mary Augusta Brazelton (Contributions by), Gao Xi (Contributions by), Zhang Daqing (Edited by), William H. Schneider (Contributions by), Daniel Asen (Contributions by), David Luesink (Edited by), Nicole Barnes (Contributions by), He Xiaolian (Contributions by), Yu Xinzhong (Contributions by), David Luesink (Contributions by), William H. Schneider (Edited by)Book Series: Rochester Studies in Medical HistoryGenre: MedicineItem Weight: 1gAuthor: Shi YanRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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