Doctors Within Borders [[electronic resource] ] : Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan

• Autore: Lo Ming-cheng Miriam
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 610.951249; 610/.95124/9
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Taiwan - History - 20th century; Physicians-- Taiwan-- History-- 20th century; Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 - Medical care - Taiwan; Physicians - History - 20th century - Taiwan; Medicine - History - 20th century - Taiwan; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 - Medical care - Taiwan; History, 20th Century; Physicians - history; Colonialism - history; Culture; Delivery of Health Care
• Soggetto geografico: Taiwan
• Persona (resp. second.): LoMing-cheng Miriam
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Illustrations and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; A Note on Romanization; 1 Taiwanese Doctors under Japanese Rule: Confronting Contradictions and Negotiating Identities; 2 Taiwan: A Nexus of Colonial Forces; 3 National Physicians (1920-1931); 4 The Years of Public Demobilization (1931-1936); 5 Medical Modernists (1937-1945); 6 Borders of Medicine: The Döjinkai Projects in China; 7 Professional Identities, Colonial Ambiguities, and Agents of Modernity; Appendix: Sources and Data; Glossary; References; Index
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Doctors Within Borders
• ISBN: 0-520-93657-4; 1-59734-582-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821986303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II