Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63

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Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63 is written by Kim Taylor and published by Psychology Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 041534512X (ISBN 10) and 9780415345125 (ISBN 13).

Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party. The political, economic and social motives which drove this promotion are analyzed and the extraordinary role that Chinese medicine was meant to play in Mao Zedong's revolution is fully explored for the first time, making a major contribution to the history of Chinese medicine.