This volume examines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjectsdisease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people's healthorganize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the book's significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating western medicine, the improvements in medical health and services during the long Sino-Japanese war, and the important role of the Chinese consumer. Intended for an audience of health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China, the book is one of three commissioned by the China Medical Board to mark its centennial in 2014.

Bridie Andrews is Associate Professor of History at Bentley University.

Mary Brown Bullock is Chair of the China Medical Board and Executive Vice-Chancellor of Duke-Kunshan University.

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: Health Transitions1. China's Exceptional Health Transitions: Overcoming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / Lincoln Chen and Chen Ling2. Changing Patterns of Diseases and Longevity: The evolution of health in 20th century Beijing / Zhang Daqing3. Maternal and Child Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-Century China / Yi-li Wu and Tina Johnson4. Tobacco Smoking and Health in Twentieth-Century China / Carol BenedictPart 2: Disease Transitions5. Epidemics and Public Health in Twentieth-Century China / Yu Xinzhong6. Schistosomiasis / Miriam Gross and Fan Ka Wai7. Tuberculosis control in Shanghai: bringing health to the masses, 1928-present / Rachel Core8. The Development of Psychiatric Services in China: Christianity, Communism and Community / Veronica PearsonPart 3: Adaptations and Innovations9. Foreign Models of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Part One / Gao Xi10. John B. Grant: Public Health and State Medicine / Bu Liping11. The Influence of War on China's Modern Health Systems / Nicole Barnes and John Watt12. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine / Volker Scheid and Sean Hsiang-lin Lei13. Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care / Fang XiaopingPart 4: Professional Transitions14. A Case Study of Transnational Flows of Chinese Medical Professionals: China Medical Board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows / Mary Brown Bullock15. The Development of Modern Nursing in China / Sonya Grypma and Zhen Cheng16. The Evolution of the Hospital in Twentieth-Century China / Michelle RenshawConclusionAppendix: TimelineNotesGeneral BibliographyContributorsIndex