Doctors within borders profession, ethnicity, and modernity in colonial Taiwan /
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-che...
| Main Author: | Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
[2002]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Colonialisms ;
1. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index. 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. 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. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco Academic. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520936577 0520936574 9780520229464 0520229460 9780520234857 0520234855 0585466335 9780585466330 |