Health Care and Traditional Medicine in China 1800-1982

First published in 1983.
Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People's Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the conflicts of State bureaucracy, Party and medical profession in their attempts to match political objectives in health care to resources available.
An outline of the theory of Chinese traditional medicine, together with detailed accounts of acupuncture and plant drugs are also discussed, as are specific features of the health care system, such as population control, medical education, nutrition and psychiatry.

S. M. Hillier, Tony Jewell

1: Historical Development of Health care; 1: Chinese and Western Medicine in China, 1800-1911; 2: The Development of Chinese Health Care, 1911-49; 3: Health Care and Welfare in China - The Ten Great Years', 1949-59; 4: The Three Bitter Years': Overture to The Cultural Revolution - Financial and Organisational Perspectives, 1960-5; 5: The Cultural Revolution and After - Health Care,1965-82; 2: Preventive Medicine; 6: Preventive Health Work in the People's Republic of China, 1949-82; 3: Traditional Medicine; 7: Theoretical Basis of Chinese Traditional Medicine; 8: Traditional Therapies I: Acupuncture and Moxibustion; 9: Traditional Therapies II: Chinese Materia Medica; 10: Chinese Traditional Medicine and Modern Western Medicine: Integration and Separation in China; 4: Special Topics in Chinese Health Care; 11: The Provision and Training of Medical and Paramedical Personnel; 12: Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mental Illness in China; 13: Diet and Nutrition in the People's Republic of China; 14: Family Planning in China