Medicine and health care in China are often seen as factors of modernization, for example, in Ruth Rogaski＇s Hygienic Modernity and Kim Taylor＇s Chinese Mechcine in Early Communist China, 1945-63. The book reviewed ...Medicine and health care in China are often seen as factors of modernization, for example, in Ruth Rogaski＇s Hygienic Modernity and Kim Taylor＇s Chinese Mechcine in Early Communist China, 1945-63. The book reviewed here takes another perspective. By focusing on ＂Medical Transitions＂ the editors Andrews and Bullock describe the changes in twentieth-century medicine not simply as part of a modernization project that has an impficit agenda with defined goals, but as ad hoc transitions, which usually react to immediate challenges in order to improve the status quo. A transition does not need to orient itself towards a specific aim,展开更多
文摘Medicine and health care in China are often seen as factors of modernization, for example, in Ruth Rogaski＇s Hygienic Modernity and Kim Taylor＇s Chinese Mechcine in Early Communist China, 1945-63. The book reviewed here takes another perspective. By focusing on ＂Medical Transitions＂ the editors Andrews and Bullock describe the changes in twentieth-century medicine not simply as part of a modernization project that has an impficit agenda with defined goals, but as ad hoc transitions, which usually react to immediate challenges in order to improve the status quo. A transition does not need to orient itself towards a specific aim,
