中国近代医学社团——博医会

从17世纪下半叶起,西欧相继出现了柏林皇家医学会、巴黎外科学会、爱丁堡和伦敦医学会等医学团体,它们通过举办会议,编辑期刊,极大地推动了当时欧洲医学的进步.19世纪末期,西方在华医学传教士为了更好地进行医学传教及医学教育工作,借鉴西方的医学社团制度,成立了"中国博医会"."博医会"致力从事医学名词的统一与标准化、教会医院...

Medical societies in modern China-China Medical Missionary Association

In modern times, the development and exchange of scientific research were promoted greatly by establishments of scientific societies in the west. In the second half of the 17th century, medical societies such as the Berlin Royal Society of Medicine, the Paris Surgical Society, the Edinburgh Medical Society and the London Medical Society appeared in sequence, which promoted the progress of European medicine greatly by means of medical conferences and journals. At the end of the 19th century, in order to promote medical missions and education, western missionaries drew lessons from the medical society system and founded the China Medical Missionary Association (CMMA). The association was dedicated to work in four fields: terminology standardization, missionary hospitals, medical education and study on endemic disease. CMMA accelerated the development of medical missions and the spread of western medicine. As members of CMMA must be of religious orders, many scholars were not qualified to join in, which resulted in limitation of academic research and exchange. With the return of overseas students, Chinese scholars majoring in western medicine enhanced the awareness of medical knowledge. As a result, western medical societies were established one by one, including the Shanghai Medical Association, the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, the Chinese Medical Association and the Society of Chinese Medicines of the Republic of China. Established in 1915, the Chinese Medical Association had members who also belonged to the CMMA,so the Chinese Medical Association made reference to the CMMA for its organization, function, operating mechanism, journals, etc..