Title Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia : policies and publics in the long twentieth century / edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth

Published Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary Examines the intersections of power, culture and science that went into the struggle to overcome disease and improve people's health in Chinese regions of 20th century East Asia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Public health -- China -- History -- 20th century Public health -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century Sanitation -- China -- History -- 20th century Sanitation -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century Public Health -- history Hygiene -- history Sanitation -- history Health Policy -- history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. MEDICAL -- Health Policy. MEDICAL -- Public Health. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues. HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Public health Sanitation Public health -- China -- History -- 20th century. Public health -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century. Sanitation -- China -- History -- 20th century. Sanitation -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century. Folkhälsa -- Kina. Folkhälsa -- Taiwan. SUBJECT China Taiwan Subject China Taiwan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Liang, Qizi Furth, Charlotte LC no. 2010024246 ISBN 9780822393252 0822393255 9786613251930 6613251933

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