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  • Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia

    Edición de Liping Bu ...
    Series series The Cold War in Asia
    Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War.Competing models of development with different political ideologies and economic enterprises increasingly influenced Asian countries in their efforts to build modern nations after World War II. Looking at examples from China ... Leer más

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  • Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015

    de Liping Bu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in 1949 to 73 in 2010; relates developments in public health to prevailing political ideologies; and ... Leer más

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  • Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia

    International Influences, Local Transformations

    Edición de Liping Bu, Ka-che Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countries in the period following the Second World War. It examines how public health concepts, policies, institutions and practices were improved, shows how international health standards were implemented, sometimes through the direct intervention of ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe and the United States to several Asian countries — Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Japan ... Leer más

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    Children at Risk in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

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  • Reconstructing Bodies

    Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945

    de John DiMoia ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the 1980s. Reconstructing Bodies traces the development of a medical infrastructure in the Republic of Korea (ROK) from 1945 to the present, arguing that the plastic ... Leer más

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  • Partner to the Poor

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    de Paul Farmer ...
    Series Libro 23 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients—and worked to address the root causes of their disease—in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere ... Leer más

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  • Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

    de Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short ... Leer más

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  • Doctors Without Borders

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  • The Government of China

    de Yu Bin ...
    Series series China: The Emerging Superpower
    Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China has been a one-party state in which the Chinese Communist Party holds a monopoly of political power. Many Western students are unfamiliar with the structures, institutions, and ideologies by which the Party exercises this power. The Government of China examines those issues in depth. It also details the historical development of China's ... Leer más

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  • The China Questions

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  • My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: Mao's China, 1949-76

    de Andrew Flint ...
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