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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010Description: viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822348152
  • 9780822348153
  • 0822348268
  • 9780822348269
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10951 22
LOC classification:
  • RA527 .H428 2010
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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