| Description |
1 online resource (x, 161 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; About the Authors; 1 -- Introduction -- Combating Malaria in East Asia: A Historical Perspective; 2 -- Colonialism, Disease, and Public Health: Malaria in the History of Hong Kong; 3 -- Anti-malaria Policy and Its Consequences in Colonial Taiwan; 4 -- The Theory and Practice of Malariology in Colonial Taiwan; 5 -- Colonial Medicine and Malaria Eradication in Okinawa in the Twentieth Century: From the Colonial Model to the United States Model; 6 -- Malaria Eradication and the Technological Model: The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health in East Asia |
| Summary |
This book studies the development of approaches to combating malaria in Hong Kong, Okinawa, Taiwan, and mainland China in the colonial and post-colonial periods as a dynamic process of interaction between the objectives of the state, international interests, emergence of new medical knowledge and technology, changing concepts of disease, as well as local society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-155) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Malaria -- East Asia -- History
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Medical policy -- East Asia
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Malaria -- history
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Colonialism -- history
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Health Policy -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Malaria
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Medical policy
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| SUBJECT |
East Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040525
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Asia, Eastern |
| Subject |
East Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yip, Ka-che, 1944- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789888052219 |
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9888052217 |
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