Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China

Author: Xiaoping Fang
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1580464335

In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of healthcare delivery for the rural masses. Download Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (Rochester Studies in Medical History) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Soon every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide basic medicalcare, which integrated the villages into a regional network of healthcare 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. This book is the first comprehensive study to reach beyond the nostalgic view of barefoot doctors that dominates present scholarship on public health in China.Author Xiaoping Fang provides evidence drawn from local archives during Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China medical books pdf for free. Author Xiaoping Fang provides evidence drawn from local archives during

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