Local Knowledge and Localized Knowledge

  • Yi Hu
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Abstract

Everyone, throughout their life, runs the risk of pain and sufferings from diseases, which is the ultimate reason why everyone should enjoy equal rights for medical and health care services. From this perspective, we say that medical and health care are a simultaneous issue. In reality, however, there is always a great difference among people in basic medical and health care in a particular time in history: the non-synchronization arising from the internal and external constraints of modernization construction. People approached the problem in exceptionally diverse ways and had equally exceptionally diverse ideals behind it. The tricky problems that persist in today’s medical and health care might be enlightened by a comparison of these approaches. “Local knowledge” is the key concept.

Keywords

Local Knowledge Modern Medicine Knowledge Type Village Health Worker Alien Culture 
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© Social Sciences Academic Press (China) and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Authors and Affiliations

  • Yi Hu
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  1. 1.Department of SociologyJiangxi Normal UniversityNanchangPeople’s Republic of China

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