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病情到了適當階段, 在醫師指導下應用蘇聯先進的醫療體育, 有很好的效果 (Medico-athletics introduced from the Soviet Union is also effective), 1953

病情到了適當階段, 在醫師指導下應用蘇聯先進的醫療體育, 有很好的效果 (Medico-athletics introduced from the Soviet Union is also effective), Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 1953

Due to the centrally controlled nature of sport systems in communist societies, the integration of sports medicine, or medico-athletics, has been extremely successful. The successes of medico-athletics in the Soviet Union were then suggested in anti-TB posters created in China. Here, groups of people are shown exercising or playing sports under the supervision of a doctor.


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Poster with a cityscape featuring Tiananmen, a farm, factories, and a Chinese flag on each side of a red star in the sky, text in the middle.

In 1953 the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association produced a large series of anti-TB posters that sought to educate the public on the causes, symptoms, treatments, and methods of preventing the spread of TB.


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