Resistance and Receptivity

Bretelle‐Establet, Florence

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“…Indeed she suggests that in 1921 50 percent of the local population in the area she studied made use of the Western clinics. 103 But this was in an area where sizeable medical institutions had been established and were paid for by the French government.…”

Section: The Introduction Of Western Bio-medicinementioning

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The Experience of Illness in Early Twentieth-century Rural Shanxi

Harrison¹

2015

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This paper uses the diary and other records of Liu Dapeng 劉大鵬 (1857-1942), a Shanxi village resident, to examine how people in rural China experienced and understood illness at an important time of transition for medical systems in China. It explains how Liu understood the illnesses that afflicted himself and members of his family in terms of providence. The healing methods he used ranged through self-medication with folk remedies and modern patent medicines; remedies provided by families friends and neighbours (including acupuncture and prescriptions based on classical Chinese medicine); remedies provided by gods and shamans; and prescriptions provided by professional doctors of Chinese medicine, whom Liu deeply distrusted. It also examines the arrival of Western medicine in Shanxi and argues that while this existed it was incorporated into networks of medicine provided by family and friends, rather than functioning as a separate institutional system.

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The Experience of Illness in Early Twentieth-century Rural Shanxi

Harrison¹

2015

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“…At a more descriptive level, Boomgaard (1993) discusses the introduction and development of Western medicine and the Dutch colonial public health service in Indonesia. Similarly, Marcovich (1988), Bretelle-Establet (1999) and Monnais (2006) consider French colonial health care in Asia 5 , and Ramanna (2002), Mushtaq (2009) and Sehrawat (2013) study British colonial medical services in India.…”

Section: Colonial Rule and Health Carementioning

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Here to Heal? The Effect of Colonial Rule on Disease and Health Care in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900-1955

Vrooman

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China in Global Health

Brazelton¹

2022

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Mary Brazelton argues that the territories and peoples associated with China have played vital roles in the emergence of modern international health. In the early twentieth century, repeated epidemic outbreaks in China justified interventions by transnational organizations; these projects shaped strategies for international health. China has also served as a space of creativity and reinvention, in which administrators developed new models of health care during decades of war and revolution, even as traditional practitioners presented alternatives to Western biomedicine. The 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China introduced a new era of socialist internationalism, as well as new initiatives to establish connections across the non-aligned world using medical diplomacy. After 1978, the post-socialist transition gave rise to new configurations of health governance. The rich and varied history of Chinese involvement in global health offers a means to make sense of present-day crises.

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Resistance and Receptivity

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

The Experience of Illness in Early Twentieth-century Rural Shanxi

The Experience of Illness in Early Twentieth-century Rural Shanxi

Here to Heal? The Effect of Colonial Rule on Disease and Health Care in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900-1955

China in Global Health

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