Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care
This paper reaches beyond a nostalgic view of barefoot doctors and calls into question the orthodox interpretations that dominate present scholarship on public health and the provision of rural health in China. It retrieves Western medicine in rural China from potential historical oblivion through t...
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Main Author: | Fang, Xiaoping |
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Other Authors: | B. Andrews |
Format: | Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
2022
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153525 https://iupress.org/9780253014900/medical-transitions-in-twentieth-century-china/ |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
Language: | English |
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