Science, public health and the state in modern Asia [electronic resource] / edited by Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton and Ka-che Yip.

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Series: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 71.Publication details: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.Description: xiv, 208 pISBN:

9780203602591

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1. Science, culture, and disease control in colonial Hong Kong / Ka-che Yip -- 2. Public health in pre-war Singapore : the development of hospital services and medical education / Law Yuen Han -- 3. Hygiene and decolonization : the Rockefeller Foundation and Indonesian nationalism, 1933-1958 / Eric Andrew Stein -- 4. The Alma-Ata Declaration, Rockefeller Foundation and the development of primary health care in Sri Lanka : a model for health promotion / Soma Hewa -- 5. 'Removing the obstacles to public health work' : context for the Rockefeller philanthropies and public health in China and Japan, 1920-1940 / Darwin H. Stapleton -- 6. From race biology to population control : the Rockefeller Foundation's 'public health' projects in Japan, 1920s-1950s / Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci -- 7. Beijing first health station : innovative public health education and influence on China's health profession / Liping Bu -- 8. Between the state and the private sphere : the Chinese state medicine movement, 1930-1949 / Xi Gao -- 9. From Japanese colonial medicine to American-standard medicine in Taiwan : a case study of the transition in the medical profession and practices in East Asia -- 10. In Republican China, public heath by whom, for whom? / Bridie Andrews.

Summary: "This book examines the encounter between Western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century, in the context of colonial rule, post-colonial development and modern state-building"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book examines the encounter between Western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century, in the context of colonial rule, post-colonial development and modern state-building"-- Provided by publisher.

Also available in print edition.

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