Open AccessLimb reconstruction surgery in China: an evaluation of its role in the largest developing nation
Author(s) -
Lei Huang,
Liang He,
Jie Wei,
Manyi Wang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
strategies in trauma and limb reconstruction/strategies in trauma and limb reconstruction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1828-8936
pISSN - 1828-8928
DOI - 10.1007/s11751-007-0020-x
Subject(s) - china , medicine , futures contract , context (archaeology) , orthopedic surgery , surgery , economic growth , development economics , political science , history , economics , law , archaeology , financial economics
China is the "economic tiger" of the twenty-first century. Its new economic policies have overturned the outlook and futures of many industries in this nation, and parallel to this industrial progress have been strides in medicine. However a country steeped in a history of several millennia does not replace generations of experience nor knowledge in a few decades. The author explores the history of limb reconstruction surgery in this country, setting it in context of a population exposed to both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.