biography
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Hatem, George
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Chinese Ma Haide
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| lived:
| (1910–88)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Buffalo, New York, USA. After training in Beirut and Geneva, he moved to Shanghai and became physician to the Communist army (1936). After 1949 he headed China's massive public health programme; his eradication of venereal disease and leprosy saved millions of lives and rates as one of the greatest ever achievements in public health. He is also one of a relatively few Westerners ever to have been fully integrated into Chinese society. |
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