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...

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Main Author: Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2002]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Colonialisms ; 1.
Subjects:
Table of 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.