Scalp Acupuncture in China

1977 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 101-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Scalp Acupuncture ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
The Comparative Study

The following article was submitted to The American Journal of Chinese Medicine by China Features in the People's Republic of China. It will be of interest to those individuals concerned with the comparative study of medical and health-care systems. We welcome readers to communicate their opinions on this article to the Editor.

Acupuncture Anesthesia in China

1977 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 185-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Acupuncture Anesthesia ◽  
The Comparative Study

The following article was submitted to The American Journal of Chinese Medicine by China Features in the People's Republic of China. It will be of interest to those individuals concerned with the comparative study of medical and health-care systems. We welcome readers to communicate their opinions on this article to the Editor.

scholarly journals Chinese Approach to Mental Health Service

1978 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 354-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia M.R. Leung ◽  
Milton H. Miller ◽  
S. Wah Leung
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Produce Change

This paper reviews the health care approaches in the People's Republic of China where life style, political leadership, grass roots health programs and patriotic zeal are a unified endeavour. Certain assumptions underlying North American health practices come into particular focus. Specifically, the Chinese experiences raise doubt about the value of a professionally oriented emphasis in health care and deny the worth of health programs which are not woven into the social, economic, political and ethical activities of society. How effective can our free standing groups of health professionals be in practising prevention, in enlisting public involvement in their own health care and in helping to co-ordinate needed public, private and governmental joint endeavours required for the enhancement of people's health? The Chinese maintain that the key to all health and mental health care advances is social and economic reform, grass roots programs and most importantly, a self-reliance strategy with an intense personal motivation to produce change in one's way of life. Professional responsibility worthy of public trust would be achieved only insofar as professional efforts facilitate these three areas of development. Material for this presentation is drawn from a total of six recent visits to the People's Republic of China and from personal discussions with' representatives of several delegations of health leaders during their Vancouver visits. Programs in the Shanghai Mental Hospital are described along with some reference to an interview with Dr. George Hatem (Ma Hai Teh), the distinguished physician who directed the programs which resulted in the virtual eradication of veneral diseases.

Policy Oscillations in the People's Republic of China: A Reply

1976 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 734-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin A. Winckler
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Reductio Ad Absurdum ◽  
Chinese Case ◽  
Heuristic Devices

Professor Nathan's pungent essay raises important issues for the politics of development in general and for drawing comparative conclusions from the Chinese case in particular. His cleansing scepticism demolishes some positions which may be held by authors in the China field and reminds others that the unstated assumptions in their models need better articulation. However he goes too far. What needs to be re-established is that clear and modest formulations of short-term recurrence, interdependence among policies, and two-sided policy disagreement are not avoidable errors but indispensable heuristic devices in the conceptual repertoire of China watchers. In fact it would be a great disservice to stùdies of contemporary China and to comparative study of the Chinese case if Professor Nathan were allowed to succeed in his attempt to identify all such analyses with his reductio ad absurdum of some of them. Let us try to rescue the possibility of constructive social science modelling of the three principal issues Professor Nathan raises.

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