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Xiaoping
Fang. Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China. Rochester,

NY: University
of Rochester Press, 2012.

13 Digit IBSN:
9781580464338. Pages: 310.



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Summary:



In 1968, at
the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist

Party endorsed
a radical new system of health-care delivery for the rural

masses. Soon
every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide

basic medical
care, creating a national network of health-care 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 look beyond the nostalgia

dominating
present scholarship on public health in China and offer a

powerful and
carefully contextualized critique of the prevailing views on

the role of
barefoot doctors, their legacy, and their impact. Drawing on

primary
documents from the Cultural Revolution and personal interviews with

patients and
doctors, I examine the evidence within the broader history of

medicine in
revolutionary and postreform China. I find that rather than

consolidating
traditional Chinese medicine, as purported by government

propaganda,
the barefoot doctor program introduced modern Western medicine

to rural
China, effectively modernizing established methods and forms of

care. As a
result, this volume retrieves from potential oblivion a critical

part of the
history of Western medicine in China.



Contents:

1 Introduction

2 Village
Healers, Medical Pluralism, and State Medicine

3
Revolutionizing Knowledge Transmission Structures

4
Pharmaceuticals Reach the Villages

5 Healing
Styles and Medical Beliefs: The Consumption of Chinese and

Western
Medicines

6 Relocating
Illness: The Shift from Home Bedside to Hospital Ward

7 Group
Identity, Power Relationships, and Medical Legitimacy

8 Conclusion

9 Appendixes

10 The
Organization of the Three-Tiered Medical System in Rural China,

1968-83

11 Common
Medicines in Chinese Villages during the 1960s-70s