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Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia : policies and publics in the long twentieth century /

Examines the intersections of power, culture and science that went into the struggle to overcome disease and improve people's health in Chinese regions of 20th century East Asia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Liang, Qizi, Furth, Charlotte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: hygienic modernity in Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth
  • The evolution of the idea of chuanran contagion in Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung
  • The treatment of night soil and waste in modern China / Yu Xinzhong
  • Sovereignty and the microscope : constituting notifiable infectious disease and containing the Manchurian plague (1910-11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
  • Eating well in China : diet and hygiene in nineteenth-century treaty ports
  • Shang-jen Li
  • Vampires in plagueland : the multiple meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski
  • Have someone cut the umbilical cord : women's birthing networks, knowledge and skills in colonial Taiwan, / Wu Chia-Ling
  • A forgotten war : malaria eradication in Taiwan, 1905-65 / Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung
  • The elimination of schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining counties, 1948-58 : public health as political movement / Li Yushang
  • Conceptual blind spots, media blindfolds : the case of SARS and traditional Chinese medicine / Marta E. Hanson
  • Governing germs from outside and within borders : controlling 2003 SARS risk in Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen and Wu Chia-Ling
  • Afterword : biomedicine in Chinese East Asia : from semicolonial to postcolonial / Warwick Anderson
  • Timeline.