Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965
This paper aims to explore how local Chinese government regulated the medical marketplace, disciplined medical commercialism, and facilitated medical institutionalization of Chinese medicine in response to the global cholera pandemic that affected southeast coastal areas of China in 1962. It argues...
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| author | Fang, Xiaoping |
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| description | This paper aims to explore how local Chinese government regulated the medical marketplace, disciplined medical commercialism, and facilitated medical institutionalization of Chinese medicine in response to the global cholera pandemic that affected southeast coastal areas of China in 1962. It argues that the top-down state medical system, which was gradually established after 1949, started managing the previously unregulated medical markets as a part of the institutionalization process of Chinese medicine, particularly in rural areas. However, the retrenchment of the medical system after the Great Leap Forward not only aggravated the problem of scarcity in the medical marketplace, but also sabotaged participation in epidemic prevention, identification of suspect patients, and the reporting of epidemic information. Eventually, through regionalized regulation, downward extension of the medical system to villages, and further institutionalization of medical units, the government cracked down on commercialism among Chinese medical practitioners and facilitated the progress of epidemic prevention. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1535232021-12-16T02:16:16Z Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965 Fang, Xiaoping Md. Nazrul Islam School of Humanities Humanities::History China Medical Marketplace This paper aims to explore how local Chinese government regulated the medical marketplace, disciplined medical commercialism, and facilitated medical institutionalization of Chinese medicine in response to the global cholera pandemic that affected southeast coastal areas of China in 1962. It argues that the top-down state medical system, which was gradually established after 1949, started managing the previously unregulated medical markets as a part of the institutionalization process of Chinese medicine, particularly in rural areas. However, the retrenchment of the medical system after the Great Leap Forward not only aggravated the problem of scarcity in the medical marketplace, but also sabotaged participation in epidemic prevention, identification of suspect patients, and the reporting of epidemic information. Eventually, through regionalized regulation, downward extension of the medical system to villages, and further institutionalization of medical units, the government cracked down on commercialism among Chinese medical practitioners and facilitated the progress of epidemic prevention. 2021-12-16T02:16:16Z 2021-12-16T02:16:16Z 2021 Book Chapter Fang, X. (2021). Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965. Md. Nazrul Islam (Eds.), Chinese Medicine and Transnational Transition during the Modern Era: Commodification, Hybridity, and Segregation (pp. 75-94). Palgrave Macmillan. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153523 978-981-15-9948-4 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153523 10.1007/978-981-15-9949-1_5 75 94 en Chinese Medicine and Transnational Transition during the Modern Era: Commodification, Hybridity, and Segregation © 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. All rights reserved. Palgrave Macmillan |
| spellingShingle | Humanities::History China Medical Marketplace Fang, Xiaoping Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965 |
| title | Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965 |
| title_full | Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965 |
| title_fullStr | Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965 |
| title_short | Medical marketplace, commercialism, and Chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast China, 1961–1965 |
| title_sort | medical marketplace commercialism and chinese medicine in the cholera pandemic in southeast coast china 1961 1965 |
| topic | Humanities::History China Medical Marketplace |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153523 |
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