Book ID: CBB886275024

A Documentary History of Public Health in Hong Kong (2019)

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Yip, Ka-che (Editor)
Man-Kong, Wong (Editor)
Leung, Yuen-Sang (Editor)


Hong Kong University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 464
Language: English

The publication of this book marks the fifteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong in 2003. This documentary study, originating as a research project a year after the epidemic, is a comprehensive attempt to examine the development of public health in Hong Kong from 1841 to the early 1990s. It covers the periods of prewar colonial rule, Japanese occupation, postwar reconstruction and growth, and the beginning of decolonization. It analyzes political, social, economic, and cultural factors, including the intersection of colonial priorities and indigenous agency and practices that affected disease outbreaks and development, government and local responses, advances in technology related to health and medicine, as well as the emergence of health agencies and institutions. The historical documents, selected from government archives, personal papers, and special collections, are invaluable source materials for the critical evaluation of such developments. The book provides a much needed and indispensable historical perspective to understanding Hong Kong’s struggle to combat prevalent and emerging diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, avian influenza, and SARS.

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Authors & Contributors
Keck, Frédéric
Chan-Yeung, Moira M. W.
Bretelle-Establet, Florence
Carter, Tim
Domínguez Vilaplana, Rafaela
González Bueno, Antonio
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Korean Journal of Medical History
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Atti e Memorie, Rivista di Storia della Farmacia
Publishers
Hong Kong University Press
Columbia University Press
Boydell Press
Duke University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Stanford University Press
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Medicine and society
Infectious diseases
Malaria
People
Pittaluga, Gustavo
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Hong Kong
China
Taiwan
Singapore
Canada
Great Britain
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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