Scaling Peaks in Medical Science [antikvár]

FOREWORD Chairman Mao's proletarian line has guided China's medical and health workers to amazing achievement. Shortly after nation-wide liberation in 1949 many endemic and infectious diseases that undermined the people's health and endangered their lives were brought under control or stamped out altogether, thus ending the miserable situation in old China as described in Chairman Mao's poem: Weeds choked hundreds of villages, men wasted away : Thousands of households dwindled, phantoms sang with glee. Making medical science serve the people is the core of Chairman Mao's proletarian line on health work. However, Liu Shao-chi and his agents in health departments pushed a counter-revolutionary revisionist line which centred medical and health work in cities, to serve the few, to the neglect of the health of the vast masses of the labouring people. They spread as hard as they could "the philosophy of servility to things foreign" and "the doctrine of trailing behind at a snail's pace", preaching "technique first" and inducing medical workers to seek a name and career for themselves. They led medical science up a blind alley by divorcing it from proletarian politics, from practice and from the masses, and thus placed serious obstacles in the way of developing China's medical and health work.