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Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia : policies and publics in the long twentieth century / edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--China--History--20th century.
- Public health.
- Public health--Taiwan--History--20th century.
- Sanitation--China--History--20th century.
- Sanitation.
- Sanitation--Taiwan--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: hygienic modernity in Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth
- The evolution of the idea of chuanran contagion in Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung
- The treatment of night soil and waste in modern China / Yu Xinzhong
- Sovereignty and the microscope : constituting notifiable infectious disease and containing the Manchurian plague (1910-11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
- Eating well in China : diet and hygiene in nineteenth-century treaty ports
- Shang-jen Li
- Vampires in plagueland : the multiple meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski
- Have someone cut the umbilical cord : women's birthing networks, knowledge and skills in colonial Taiwan, / Wu Chia-Ling
- A forgotten war : malaria eradication in Taiwan, 1905-65 / Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung
- The elimination of schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining counties, 1948-58 : public health as political movement / Li Yushang
- Conceptual blind spots, media blindfolds : the case of SARS and traditional Chinese medicine / Marta E. Hanson
- Governing germs from outside and within borders : controlling 2003 SARS risk in Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen and Wu Chia-Ling
- Afterword : biomedicine in Chinese East Asia : from semicolonial to postcolonial / Warwick Anderson
- Timeline.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25193-0
- 0-8223-9325-5
- 9786613251930
- OCLC:
- 1145328880
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