num_pages: 260
description: 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.
language: English
title: Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan
titlecomplete: Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan
ratings_count: 9
series: Colonialisms
publisher: University of California Press