Western Medical Education on Trial: The Endurance of Peking Union Medical College, 1949-1985

Brazelton, Mary Augusta

doi:10.1353/tcc.2015.0020

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The college's role as a prominent establishment for the training of elite physician-researchers was an obvious mismatch with the new regimes popularist approach to health. 23 Although, there were no substantial changes during the first year of nationalization, the outbreak of the Korean War in 1952 saw anti-American sentiment on the rise and the People's Liberation Army took control of the college, militarizing both administration and teaching programmes while closing the school to undergraduate and medical students in favour of graduate-level courses for army medical officers. 23 Under these circumstances, Hoeppli's position was untenable and in August 1952 he left China for good, taking up a three-year appointment as a visiting professor of parasitology at the University of Malaya in Singapore.…”

Section: Post-war Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Reinhard Hoeppli (1893–1973): The life and curious afterlife of a distinguished parasitologist

Morley

2019

J Med Biogr

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Reinhard Hoeepli was a Swiss-German physician with a distinguished career as a researcher and historian of medical parasitology. He spent the majority of his career at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, where he undertook research on host responses to parasitic infections, in particular describing the ‘Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon’, between 1929 and 1952. During the Second World War, he acted as the Swiss honorary Consul in Japanese-occupied Beijing. After leaving China following the militarization of the College in the wake of the Korean War, he subsequently worked in Singapore and Liberia before retiring to Switzerland. Hoeppli is most widely known for his association with Sir Edmund Backhouse, a controversial and enigmatic Chinese scholar, who was his war-time patient towards the end of his life. With Hoeppli's encouragement, Backhouse wrote two scandalous and unpublishable memoirs which remained in Hoeppli's safe-keeping until his own death in 1973. However, the revelations by the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper in 1976 that Backhouse was a fraudster and fantasist has had a detrimental effect on Hoeppli's posthumous reputation that has overshadowed his many lifetime achievements. Alongside a biography of his life, an examination of the controversies of the Backhouse revelations on Hoeppli's repute is presented.

show abstract

Section: Post-war Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Reinhard Hoeppli (1893–1973): The life and curious afterlife of a distinguished parasitologist

Morley

2019

J Med Biogr

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Western Medical Education on Trial: The Endurance of Peking Union Medical College, 1949-1985

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

Reinhard Hoeppli (1893–1973): The life and curious afterlife of a distinguished parasitologist

Reinhard Hoeppli (1893–1973): The life and curious afterlife of a distinguished parasitologist

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About