Hygienic Modernity : Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China /

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Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chines...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rogaski, Ruth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public health.
Health behavior.
Medicine, Chinese Traditional > China. > History.
History, 20th Century > China.
History, 19th Century > China.
History of medicine > China.
Health Behavior > ethnology > China.
Public health > China. > History.
Public health > China.
Health Behavior > China.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
history of medicine.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire.
Sante publique > Chine > Tianjin.
Sante publique > Chine.
Habitudes sanitaires > Chine > Tianjin.
Habitudes sanitaires > Chine.
Medicine, Chinese Traditional > history
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
History of Medicine
Health Behavior > ethnology
Public Health > history
Public health > China > Tianjin.
Health behavior > China > Tianjin.
Medicine > History.
Health behavior > China.
China.
China
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Conquering the one hundred diseases": weisheng before the twentieth century
  • Health and disease in Heaven's Ford
  • Medical encounters and divergences
  • Translating weisheng in treaty-port China
  • Transforming eisei in Meiji Japan
  • Deficiency and sovereignty: hygienic modernity in the occupation of Tianjin, 1900-1902
  • Seen and unseen: the urban landscape and boundaries of weisheng
  • Weisheng and the desire for modernity
  • Japanese management of germs in Tianjin
  • Germ warfare and patriotic weisheng.

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