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Author Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam.

Title Doctors within borders : profession, ethnicity, and modernity in colonial Taiwan / Ming-Cheng M. Lo
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : illustrations
Series Colonialisms ; 1
Colonialisms ; 1.
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 Dōjinkai projects in China -- Professional identities, colonial ambiguities, and agents of modernity
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Physicians -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century
Medicine -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Medical care -- Taiwan
Culture.
Colonialism -- history
History, 20th Century
Culture
Delivery of Health Care -- history
Physicians -- history
culture note.
culture (concept)
MEDICAL -- History.
Culture
Medical care
Medicine
Physicians
Artsen.
Geneeskunde.
Beroepspraktijk.
SUBJECT Taiwan
Subject Taiwan
Taiwan.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002001622
ISBN 9780520936577
0520936574
9780520229464
0520229460
9780520234857
0520234855
0585466335
9780585466330