Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5624-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 243 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control potential threats to health. It shows how policies impacted the various Chinese and non-Chinese groups, and how policies were often formulated as a result of negotiations between these different groups. By considering developments over a long historical period, the book contrasts the different approaches in the periods of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, post-war reconstruction, transition to decolonization, and Hong Kong as Special Administrative Region within the People’s Republic of China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yip, Ka-Che

Leung, Yuen Sang

Wong, Man Kong Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Disease-control Policies, 1841-1894: Colonial Priorities and Local Realities 3. Disease, Scientific Medicine, and Public Health: from the Plague Epidemic to the Early Twentieth Century 4. Disease, Industrialization and Wartime Destruction, 1920s-1945 5. Health, Disease Control and Post-war Construction, 1945-1960s 6. Epidemiological Transition and Disease Prevention, 1960s-1980s 7. Disease, Socio-economic Transformation, and Transition to Decolonization, 1980s-1997 8. Combating Global Epidemics in the Post-colonial State, 1997-2003 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Ka-che Yip is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

Yuen-sang Leung is Professor of History, Dean of Arts, and Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

Man-kong Wong is Director of the China Studies Programme and Associate Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University, China.