Xiaoping Fang is a research fellow in the China Research Centre of the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of healthcare delivery for the rural masses. Soon every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide basic medical care, which integrated the villages into a regional network of healthcare services for the very first time. The barefoot doctors were portrayed nationally and internationally as revolutionary heroes, wading undaunted through rice-paddies to bring effective, low-cost care to poor peasants.
This book is the first comprehensive study to reach beyond the nostalgic view of barefoot doctors that dominates present scholarship on public health in China. Author Xiaoping Fang provides evidence drawn from local archives during the Cultural Revolution and personal interviews with patients and doctors, contextualizing it within the broader history of medicine in revolutionary and post-reform China. His data demonstrates that the key impact of the barefoot doctor program was its introduction of modern Western medicine into villages that were hitherto dominated by traditional Chinese medicine. Although traditional methods were marginalized by the innovations and improved outcomes Western medicine brought, Chinese medicine continued to exist as an alternative approach.
This book ultimately offers a powerful and carefully contextualized critique of conventional views on the role of barefoot doctors, their legacy, and their impact, both in rural areas and in China as a whole, while making theoretical contributions to the Chinese social historiography of medicine.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 醫療史 衛生史 社會史 赤腳醫生 海外中國研究 當代中國史 曆史學 近代史
對毛時代鄉村醫療的肯定。西醫的傳播與接受得益於赤腳醫生製度。
評分全書敘述過多,立論證明略顯單薄
評分講中國故事的英文書都不難讀。史料很豐富,但作者似乎沒有仔細鑒彆,因此還達不到專業曆史學的水準。比如鄧小平的“穿鞋醫生”論,最後“皮鞋”一說據考證是被捏造(楊念群),作者卻直接相信瞭那個時期的《人民日報》報道。
評分翻閱。在用土方子治病的同時,赤腳醫生們也在傳播西醫。毛時代農村醫療體係崩塌不在於民眾不接受,而是醫生不乾瞭——沒有人是魔鬼,但也沒人是天生的天使
評分沒有中譯本,目前赤腳醫生研究的創新之作,豐富、多元的史料以及新穎的觀點值得醫學史學者駐足研習。
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