Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2002]
©2002

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Colonialisms ; 1
Colonialisms ; 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
Contents 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 Dōjinkai projects in China -- Professional identities, colonial ambiguities, and agents of modernity.
Summary 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Physicians -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Physicians.
Taiwan.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Medicine -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century.
Medicine.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Medical care -- Taiwan.
History, 20th Century.
Colonialism -- history.
Culture.
Delivery of Health Care -- history.
Physicians -- history.
Taiwan.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam. Doctors within borders. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2002 0520229460 (DLC) 2002001622 (OCoLC)49375866
ISBN 9780520936577 (electronic book)
0520936574 (electronic book)
9780520229464 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520229460 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520234857 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520234855 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520229460 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520234855 (paperback ; alkaline paper)