Saving Lives in Wartime China - How Medical Reformers Built Modern Healthcare Systems Amid War and Epidemics, 1928-1945

This study shows how a small number of medical reformers introduced modern healthcare services between 1928-1945 in China when Chinese people were suffering by the millions from infectious disease, maternal child mortality, and battlefield casualties.

About the author

John Watt (Ph.D. 1967, Columbia University), is vice president of the American Bureau of Medical Advancement in China Foundation and former executive director of ABMAC. He authored The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China and edited Health Care and National Development in Taiwan, 1950-2000.

Product details

• Authors: John R Watt, John R. Watt
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2015
• EAN: 9789004310766
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31076-6
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: China Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General