Leung / Furth Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia

Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9325-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

A collection exploring public health policies and implementation in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present; many of the contributors are based in Taiwan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leung, Angela Ki Che

Furth, Charlotte

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yu, Xinzhong

Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Hygienic Modernity in Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth 1
Part I. Tradition and Transition
The Evolution of the Idea of Chuanran Contagion in Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung 25
The Treatment of Night Soil and Waste in Modern China / Yu Zinzhong 51
Sovereignty and the Microscope: Constituting Notifiable Infectious Disease and Containing the Manchurian Plague (1910–11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei 73
Part II. Colonial Health and Hygiene
Eating Well in China: Diet and Hygiene in Nineteenth-Century Treaty Ports / Shang-Jen Li 109
Vampires in Plagueland: The Multiple Meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski 132
Have Someone Cut the Umbilical Cord: Women's Birthing Networks, Knowledge, and Skills in Colonial Taiwan / Wu Chia-Ling 160
Part III. Campaigns for Epidemic Control
A Forgotten War: Malaria Eradication in Taiwan, 1905–65 / Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung 183
The Elimination of Schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining Counties, 1948–58: Public Health as Political Movement / Li Yushang 204
Conceptual Blind Spots, Media Blindfolds: The Case of SARS and Traditional Chines Medicine / Marta E. Hanson 228
Governing Germs from Outside and Within Borders: Controlling 2003 SARS Risk in Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen and Wu Chia-Ling 255
Afterword: Biomedicine in Chinese East Asia: From Semicolonial to Postcolonial? / Warwick Anderson 273
Timeline 279
Glossary 283
Bibliography 287
Contributors 323
Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Angela Ki Che Leung is Director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and Adjunct Research Fellow with the Institute of History and Philology at the Academia Sinica in Taipei. She is the author of Leprosy in China: A History. Charlotte Furth is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical History, 960–1665.Charlotte Furth is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical History, 960–1665.