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Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare
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Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945 Hardcover - 2013

by John R. Watt


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  • Title Saving Lives in Wartime China: How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945
  • Author John R. Watt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 362
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2013-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789004256453 / 9004256458
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.4 x 1 in (23.88 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects China - History - 20th century, Public health - China - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013027832
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.109

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  • Choice, 09/01/2014, Page 113

About the author

John Watt (Ph.D. 1967, Columbia University), is vice president of the American Bureau of Medical Advancement in China Foundation and former executive director of ABMAC. He authored The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China and edited Health Care and National Development in Taiwan, 1950-2000.
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Saving Lives in Wartime China. How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945.

by WATT, JOHN R.

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Leiden.: Brill. 2013. Maps, charts (some in colour), black and white illustrations, xx + 339pp, bibliography, indices, very good hardback copy. In the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems. Epidemic diseases killed tens of millions, drought, flood and famine killed many more, and unhygienic birthing led to serious maternal and child mortality. The Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, and the nationwide War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945), imposed a further tide of misery. Troubled by this extensive trauma, a small number of healthcare reformers were able to save tens of thousands of lives, promote hygiene and sanitation, and begin to bring battlefield casualties, communicable diseases, and maternal child mortality under control. This study shows how biomedical physicians and public health practitioners were major contributors to the rise of modern China. .
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