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A documentary history of public health in hong kong
This book chronicles the history of public health in Hong Kong from 1842 to 1980. It provides a framework to understand important events, policies, institutions, and advances in technology related to health developments in colonial Hong Kong, including the role of the world wars.
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A medical history of hong kong: 1842–1941
This book explores the development of medical and sanitation services in Hong Kong during the first century of British rule. Moira M. W. Chan-Yeung details how the colonial administration's changing political values and the socioeconomic status of Hong Kong affected policy making.
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Accidents and the state
The beginning of the twentieth century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. The contributions in this volume explore social, cultural, political, administrative, and medical responses to accidents in modern states. The case studies include British, French, German, Italian, Chine...
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Coca and the victorians
From its botanical origins to a global commodity – an interdisciplinary analysis of coca in 19th-century Britain.
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Epidemics and othering
Focusing biopolitics, this book brings together a number of historical and cultural perspectives on the processes of othering in the long transnational human history of epidemics and pandemics.
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Form follows fever
Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent years of initial urban settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s.
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Material cultures of psychiatry
In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry as a complex entanglement where power is permanently negoti...
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Seventy-two ways of saving lives
This book fosters an appreciation of China’s long tradition of folk remedies and provides an historical and interpretive analysis to expand on each therapy and to place it in the context of contemporary thinking.
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Strange blood
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion was tested as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia, and proposed as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. This book ventures into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, laboratories and wars, to e...
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The emergence of modern hospital management and organisation in the world 1880s-1930s
The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s analyzes core themes from a business history perspective to reach a new understanding about the history of modern large scale healthcare institutions, from the United States to China, with particular attention t...
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