| Description |
1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Contents |
List of Abbreviations -- Note on Romanization -- Introduction: Diasporic Medicine -- 1 Prewar International Strategies -- 2 Wartime Military Medicine -- 3 Making Blood Banking Work -- 4 Transnational Politics of Military Medical Education -- 5 Reconstructing Biomedicine across the Taiwan Straits -- Conclusion: Legacies of Global Medicine -- Glossary of Chinese Characters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"In 1938, one year into the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese military found itself in dire medical straits. Soldiers were suffering from deadly illnesses, and were unable to receive blood transfusions for their wounds. The urgent need for medical assistance prompted an unprecedented flowering of scientific knowledge in China and Taiwan throughout the twentieth century. Wayne Soon draws on archives from three continents to argue that Overseas Chinese were key to this development, utilizing their global connections and diasporic links to procure much-needed money, supplies, and medical expertise. The remarkable expansion of care and education that they spurred saved more than four million lives and trained more than fifteen thousand medical personnel. Moreover, the introduction of military medicine shifted biomedicine out of elite, urban civilian institutions and laboratories and transformed it into an adaptive field-based practice for all. Universal care, practical medical education, and mobile medicine are all lasting legacies of this effort."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicine, Chinese -- History -- 20th century.
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Medicine, Chinese. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Chinese -- Foreign countries.
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Medicine, Military -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Medicine, Military. |
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China. |
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Chinese -- Foreign countries. |
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HISTORY / Asia / China. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version Soon, Wayne. Global medicine in China. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020] 9781503611931 (OCoLC)1138674856 |
| ISBN |
9781503614017 (electronic book) |
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1503614018 |
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9781503611931 |
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1503611930 |
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9781503614000 |
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150361400X |
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