Saving Lives in Wartime China

How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-31076-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: China Studies

In the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems. Epidemic diseases killed tens of millions, drought, flood and famine killed many more, and unhygienic birthing led to serious maternal and child mortality. The Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, and the nationwide War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945), imposed a further tide of misery.

Troubled by this extensive trauma, a small number of healthcare reformers were able to save tens of thousands of lives, promote hygiene and sanitation, and begin to bring battlefield casualties, communicable diseases, and maternal child mortality under control. This study shows how biomedical physicians and public health practitioners were major contributors to the rise of modern China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watt, John R

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Saving Lives in the Context of Disease, Poverty and War

1. Epidemics, Wars and Public Healthcare Advocacy in Nationalist China

2. Advances and Setbacks in Nationalist China's Public Health

3. Red Army Health Services in Jiangxi and on the Long March, 1927-1936

4. Japanese Invasion, Army Medicine, and the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps, 1937-1942

5. How Rigidity, Disease and Hunger Undermined the Best Efforts of Nationalist China’s Military Medical Reformers

6. Public Health Work amid the Turmoil of War, 1938-49

7. Yan’an’s Health Services under Mao Zedong’s Leadership, 1937-1945

8. Saving Lives in Wartime China: Why It Mattered

Über Autor(innen)

John Watt (Ph.D. 1967, Columbia University), is vice president of the American Bureau of Medical Advancement in China Foundation and former executive director of ABMAC. He authored The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China and edited Health Care and National Development in Taiwan, 1950-2000.