Medical Science And Politics:Research On Chinese Barefoot Doctor System In The Planned Economy Period

Barefoot doctor system which has its profound historical meaning was really a great pioneering undertaking with strong Chinese characteristics in the early years underserved special time."Barefoot doctors" as a synonymous of the basic-level stall of medical in the special time,vividly describes the double role of the medical team with Chinese characteristics.They call themselves peasants,because Barefoot symbolized peasants.But the peasants called them doctors,because doctors mean that they take the mission of guarding the health of peasants.It is this health care system in this particular era had made an outstanding contribution to the imminent medical health problems.In this context,the study of barefoot doctor system with the generation and change,will has a very important practical and theoretical value to understanding and interpretation of historical changes in China’s rural areas and the contemporary relationship between China’s rural reform and the new rural cooperative medical system.This paper discusses the historical background of the barefoot doctor system, including policy, thought, institution, economy and other factors.All the factors,which include the failure on rural health care policy, the idea of medical revolution of the politician, the contradiction between economic backwardness in the new China and the people’s medical demands,the uneven distribution of medical resources between the urban and rural space, are required to select a medical system with Chinese characteristics.The health care system must be in line with China’s national conditions and solve the rural health problem.And collective economic system in the formation of agricultural cooperation also provides a certain economic base for rural health care system. The second section traces the historical development of the barefoot doctor system, from the predecessor to the formal establishment of the barefoot doctor system.Barefoot doctor system has a set of mechanisms, including selection, training,administration, business management, assessment mechanism.Barefoot doctors,whose medical activities are "embedded" in social networks and social relations,were generated and maintained in special social relations of rural society.The paper explores the relation between the barefoot doctor system and nation-building of modern nation-state.The nationalization of the medicine science is the necessary step of the country’s modernization process.The barefoot doctor system is the more equitable development result of the nationalization of the medicine science.