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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821986303321

Autore

Lo Ming-cheng Miriam

Titolo

Doctors within borders : profession, ethnicity, and modernity in colonial Taiwan / / Ming-Cheng M. Lo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2002

ISBN

0-520-93657-4

1-59734-582-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Colonialisms ; ; 1

Disciplina

610/.95124/9

Soggetti

Physicians - Taiwan - History - 20th century

Medicine - Taiwan - History - 20th century

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 - Medical care - Taiwan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Taiwanese doctors under Japanese rule : confronting contradictions and negotiating identities -- Taiwan : a nexus of colonial forces -- National physicians (1920-1931) -- The years of public demobilization (1931-1936) -- Medical modernists (1937-1945) -- Borders of medicine : the Dojinkai projects in China --  Professional identities, colonial ambiguities, and agents of modernity.

Sommario/riassunto

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.