Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bu, Liping; Yip, Ka-Che; Stapleton, Darwin H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now, in the context of colonial rule, post-colonial development and modern state-building.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136618680
• Artikelnr.: 38405037

Autorenporträt

Liping Bu is Professor of History at Alma College, Michigan. Her publications include Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century. Darwin H. Stapleton is Professor of History at University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Executive Director Emeritus of the Rockefeller Archive Center, USA. He is the editor of Creating a Tradition of Biomedical Research: Contributions to the History of The Rockefeller University. Ka-che Yip is Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. Recent publications include, as editor, Disease, Colonialism, and the State: Malaria in East Asian History.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Science, Culture, and Disease Control in Colonial Hong
Kong 3. Public Health in Prewar Singapore: The Development of Hospital
Services and Medical Education 4. Hygiene and Decolonization: The
Rockefeller Foundation and Indonesian Nationalism, 1933-1958 5. The
Alma-Ata Declaration, Rockefeller Foundation and the Development of Primary
Health Care in Sri Lanka: A Model for Health Promotion 6. "Removing the
Obstacles to Public Health Work": Rockefeller Initiatives in Public Health
in China and Japan and its Effects, 1925-1950 7. From Race Biology to
Population Control: The Rockefeller Foundation's "Public Health" Projects
in Japan, 1920s-1950s 8. Beijing First Health Station: Innovative Public
Health Education and Influence on China's Health Profession 9. Between the
State and the Private Sphere: The Chinese State Medicine Movement,
1930-1949 10. From Japanese Colonial Medicine to American-Standard Medicine
in Taiwan - A Case Study of the Transition in the Medical Profession and
Practices in East Asia 11. In Republican China, Public Health by Whom, for
Whom