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Latin American and East Asian societies have experienced somewhat similar social, cultural, and political...

At the peak of the Cultural Revolution, the barefoot doctor initiative and the production brigade medical stations...

For historians of health and medicine, Southeast Asia is a fascinating area to explore. It has been ravaged by...

The relationship between society and medicine in ancient China is a booming academic field. Fan Ka Wai points to the...

Roddy Reid's book Globalizing Tobacco Control provides a comparative framework for understanding how cigarettes, once...

The geopolitical context for nuclear technologies has changed drastically since the end of the Cold War. After the...

In January 2004, I traveled to Minneapolis to visit the special collections at the University of Minnesota's main...

Many academic and journalistic books were published in Europe and in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s on...

After rapid development over the last two decades, China now faces serious pollution problems. At the same time...

This work deals with an unusual yet topical subject, the history of equine medicine in Korea. It is welcome because...