Kim Taylor

Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963

A Medicine of Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the mid-twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9780415345125
• ISBN-10: 041534512X
• Artikelnr.: 22093852

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. A New
Scientific and Unified Medicine: Civil War in China and the New Acupuncture
1945-1949  2. Pathway for the New Medicine: The Unification of Chinese and Western Medicine
1949-1953  3. Modernising the Old: The Creation of a 'Traditional' Chinese Medicine
1953-1956  4. Establishing a National Treasure Trove of TCM: The Standardisation of Chinese Medicine
1957-1963  Conclusion

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A New, Scientific and Unified Medicine: Civil War in China and the New Acupuncture, 1945-1949 2. Pathway for the New Medicine: The Unification of Chinese and Western Medicine, 1949-1953 3. Modernising the Old: The Creation of a 'Traditional' Chinese Medicine, 1953-1956 4. Establishing a National Treasure Trove of TCM: The Standardisation of Chinese Medicine, 1957-1963 Conclusion

Rezensionen

'Kim Taylor's book, Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, is a gratifying addition to the list of genuinely new historical studies.' - China Quarterly

'Taylor has written a significant work thath makes real contributions to our understanding of changing pedagogic and therapeutic practices in Chinese medicine.' - China Journal

'The first coherent analysis of non-"Western" medicine in the People's Republic ... a welcome contribution to a timely topic, of high academic standard and succinctly written in accessible language.' - Asian Affairs

'Kim Taylor's book, Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, is a gratifying addition to the list of genuinely new historical studies.' - China Quarterly

'Taylor has written a significant work thath makes real contributions to our understanding of changing pedagogic and therapeutic practices in Chinese medicine.' - China Journal

'The first coherent analysis of non-"Western" medicine in the People's Republic ... a welcome contribution to a timely topic, of high academic standard and succinctly written in accessible language.' - Asian Affairs