Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia
Subtitle: policies and publics in the long twentieth century
By: edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780822348153; 9780822348269
Subjects: Public health; Sanitation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: hygienic modernity in Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth; title: The evolution of the idea of chuanran contagion in Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung; title: The treatment of night soil and waste in modern China / Yu Xinzhong; title: Sovereignty and the microscope : constituting notifiable infectious disease and containing the Manchurian plague (1910-11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei; title: Eating well in China : diet and hygiene in nineteenth-century treaty ports; title: Shang-jen Li; title: Vampires in plagueland : the multiple meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski; title: Have someone cut the umbilical cord : women's birthing networks, knowledge and skills in colonial Taiwan, / Wu Chia-Ling; title: A forgotten war : malaria eradication in Taiwan, 1905-65 / Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung; title: The elimination of schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining counties, 1948-58 : public health as political movement / Li Yushang; title: Conceptual blind spots, media blindfolds : the case of SARS and traditional Chinese medicine / Marta E. Hanson; title: Governing germs from outside and within borders : controlling 2003 SARS risk in Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen and Wu Chia-Ling; title: Afterword : biomedicine in Chinese East Asia : from semicolonial to postcolonial / Warwick Anderson; title: Timeline.