Description: The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.
Review Quotes: This illuminating study corrects what we thought we knew about that evanescent character the Barefoot Doctor, invented in 1968, widely acclaimed inside and outside China, and officially discarded in 1985. Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China is based not only on research on the ground, but on a thorough study of the pertinent scholarly literature.-- "THE CHINA REVIEW"