Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (2010)
Leung, Angela Ki Che (Editor)
Furth, Charlotte (Editor)
Duke University Press
Physical Details: viii + 337 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English
This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking and implementation in Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and the Yangzi River delta, focusing mostly on towns and villages rather than cities. Whether discussing the resistance of lay midwives in colonial Taiwan to the Japanese campaign to replace them with experts in scientific motherhood or the reaction of British colonists in Shanghai to Chinese diet and health regimes, they illuminate the effects of foreign interventions and influences on particular situations and localities. They discuss responses to epidemics from the plague in early-twentieth-century Manchuria to SARS in southern China, Singapore, and Taiwan, but they also emphasize that public health is not just about epidemic crises. As essays on marsh drainage in Taiwan, the enforcement of sanitary ordinances in Shanghai, and vaccination drives in Manchuria show, throughout the twentieth century public health bureaucracies have primarily been engaged in the mundane activities of education, prevention, and monitoring.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Rocha, Leon Antonio (2012) Review of "Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century". Journal of Asian Studies (p. 217).
Review Chiu, Michella W. (2013) Review of "Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century". Medical History (pp. 140-142).
Chapter Furth, Charlotte (2010) Hygienic Modernity in Chinese East Asia. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 1).
Chapter Leung, Angela Ki Che (2010) The Evolution of the Idea of Chuanran Contagion in Imperial China. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 25).
Chapter Yu, Xinzhong (2010) The Treatment of Night Soil and Waste in Modern China. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 51).
Chapter Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin (2010) Sovereignty and the Microscope: Constituting Notifiable Infectious Disease and Containing the Manchurian Plague (1910--11). In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 73).
Chapter Li, Shang-Jen (2010) Eating Well in China: Diet and Hygiene in Nineteenth-Century Treaty Ports. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 109).
Chapter Rogaski, Ruth (2010) Vampires in Plagueland: The Multiple Meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 133).
Chapter Wu, Chia-Ling (2010) Have Someone Cut the Umbilical Cord: Women's Birthing Networks, Knowledge, and Skills in Colonial Taiwan. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 160).
Chapter Lin, Yi-ping; Liu, Shiyung (2010) A Forgotten War: Malaria Eradication in Taiwan, 1905--65. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 183).
Chapter Li, Yushang (2010) The Elimination of Schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining Counties, 1948--58: Public Health as Political Movement. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 204).
Chapter Hanson, Marta E. (2010) Conceptual Blind Spots, Media Blindfolds: The Case of SARS and Traditional Chinese Medicine. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 228).
Chapter Tseng, Yen-fen; Wu, Chia-Ling (2010) Governing Germs from Outside and Within Borders: Controlling 2003 SARS Risk in Taiwan. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 255).
Chapter Anderson, Warwick (2010) Biomedicine in Chinese East Asia: From Semicolonial to Postcolonial?. In: Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century (p. 273).
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