title: Limb reconstruction surgery in China: an evaluation of its role in the largest developing nation.
abstract: China is the "economic tiger" of the twenty-first century. Its new economic policies have overturned the outlook and futures of many industries in this nation, and parallel to this industrial progress have been strides in medicine. However a country steeped in a history of several millennia does not replace generations of experience nor knowledge in a few decades. The author explores the history of limb reconstruction surgery in this country, setting it in context of a population exposed to both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Beijing Ji shui Tan Hospital, The fourth Medical College of Peking University, No.31, Xin Jie Kou Dong Jie, Xicheng district, Beijing, 100035, People’s Republic of China, huangleibear@yahoo.com.cn.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Manyi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang