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Doctors within borders : profession, ethnicity, and modernity in colonial Taiwan / Ming-Cheng M. Lo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam.
- Series:
- Colonialisms ; 1.
- Colonialisms ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Taiwan--History--20th century.
- Physicians.
- Medicine--Taiwan--History--20th century.
- Medicine.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Medical care--Taiwan.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley , Calif. : University of California Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores Japan's ""scientific colonialism"" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, Ming-cheng Lo unearths the points of convergence for medicine and politics in colonial Taiwan.
- Contents:
- Taiwanese doctors under Japanese rule : confronting contradictions and negotiating identities
- Taiwan : a nexus of colonial forces
- National physicians (1920-1931)
- The years of public demobilization (1931-1936)
- Medical modernists (1937-1945)
- Borders of medicine : the Dojinkai projects in China
- Professional identities, colonial ambiguities, and agents of modernity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93657-4
- 1-59734-582-2
- OCLC:
- 475927623
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