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Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China

Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China

Fang, Xiaoping

Paperback

Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History, Book 23

Medical ReferenceChinese HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1580465218
ISBN13: 9781580465212
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Apr 1 2015
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.

In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of health-care delivery for the rural masses. Soon every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide basic medical care, creating a national network of health-care services for the very first time. The barefoot doctors were portrayed nationally and internationally as revolutionary heroes, wading undaunted through rice paddies to bring effective, low-cost care to poor peasants.

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