Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963: A Medicine of Revolution
ISBN: 9780203311271
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Asian Studies; History; Chinese Studies; Asian History; History of Medicine;

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.

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.

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