Research Catalog

Title

Uneasy encounters : the politics of medicine and health in China, 1900-1937 / Iris Borowy (ed.).

Publication

Frankfurt am Maim ; New York : Peter Lang, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Borowy, Iris, 1962-

Description

230 p. : ill., map; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

Politics of medicine and health in China, 1900-1937

Subject

• Geschichte 1900-1937
• 1900-1999
• History, 20th Century
• International Cooperation > history
• Medicine, Chinese Traditional > history
• Social Change > history
• Health Policy > history
• Public Health > history
• History of Medicine
• Public health > China > History > 20th century
• Medicine > China > History > 20th century
• Medicine, Chinese > History > 20th century
• Medical policy > China > History > 20th century
• China

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Religion to Science: Western Medicine's Role in Reforming China / Qiusha Ma -- From Extending French Colonial Control to Safeguarding National Prestige: The French Medical Dispensaries in Southern China / Florence Bretelle-Establet -- Social Darwinism, Public Health and Modernization on China,1895-1925 / Liping Bu -- (Re)Claiming Sovereignty: The Manchuria Plague Prevention Services (1912-31) / Liew Kai Khiun -- The History of Chinese Medicine: Empires, Transnationalism and Medicine in China, 1908-1937 / David Luesink -- The Rockefeller Foundation's Struggle to Correlate Its Existing Medical Program with Public Health Work in China / Socrates Litsios -- Thinking Big: League of Nations Efforts towards a Reformed National Health System in China / Iris Borowy.

ISBN

9783631578032 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 368029541
• SCSB-11465735

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library