Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963: A Medicine of Revolution

by Kim Taylor

Book Overview

Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party. The political, economic and social motives which drove this promotion are analyzed and the extraordinary role that Chinese medicine was meant to play in Mao Zedong's revolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415514061
• ISBN13: 9780415514064
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"