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
This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulati
This groundbreaking volume captures and analyzes the exhilarating and at times disorienting experience when scientists, government officials, educators, and the
The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, coloni