Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China

"Rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens." —The Lancet
This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects—disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people's health—organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental he...