Global Medicine in China

A Diasporic History

Wayne Soon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2020
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-1193-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Wayne Soon is Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College.

Introductory Chapter: 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

Concluding Chapter: Legacies of Wartime Medicine

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	16 figures, 5 tables, 1 map
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5036-1193-0 / 1503611930
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-1193-1 / 9781503611931
Zustand	Neuware