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The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911

Author : William C. Summers
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030018476X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911 written by William C. Summers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history, William Summers relates how this plague killed as many as 60,000 people in less than a year, and uses the analysis to examine the actions and interactions of the multinational doctors, politicians, and ordinary residents who responded to it.Summers covers the complex political and economic background of early twentieth-century Manchuria and then moves on to the plague itself, addressing the various contested stories of the plague's origins, development, and ecological ties. Ultimately, Summers shows how, because of Manchuria's importance to the world powers of its day, the plague brought together resources, knowledge, and people in ways that enacted in miniature the triumphs and challenges of transnational medical projects such as the World Health Organization.

Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia

Author : Qizi Liang
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348268
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia written by Qizi Liang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the intersections of power, culture and science that went into the struggle to overcome disease and improve people's health in Chinese regions of 20th century East Asia.

Memories Of Dr Wu Lien-teh, Plague Fighter

Author : Yu-lin Wu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814632821
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Memories Of Dr Wu Lien-teh, Plague Fighter written by Yu-lin Wu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995-07-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Wu Lien-teh (1879 - 1960) was a distinguished scientist and Cambridge-trained Chinese physician who, at the age of 31, was sent to Manchuria in the severe winter of 1910 to fight the terrifying pneumonia plague which then threatened the world and claimed a deathtoll of 60,000 victims. The successful ending of this major plague epidemic, covering a distance of 2,000 miles from the north-western border of Siberia to Peking, within a short period of four months, brought him international fame and marked the beginning of almost thirty years of devoted humanitarian service to China.In 1912, Dr Wu established the Manchurian Plague Prevention Service, and it was on this foundation that he, despite immense difficulties, began to modernise China's medical services and medical education. Some twenty modern hospitals, laboratories and research institutions, including the Peking Central Hospital, built by Dr Wu in different parts of China are memorials to his work. He founded the Chinese Medical Association and established the first national quarantine service in China. He embarked on arduous work for the League of Nations and became a world authority on plague.This volume contains more than 200 historically important photographs vividly depicting the medical scenes and anti-plague work in China during the years 1908 - 37 that came from Dr Wu's private collection — an extraordinary collection filled with unforgettable images. This book, written with sensitivity and tenderness, is a worthy companion to Dr Wu Lien-teh's autobiography entitled Plague Fighter: The Autobiography of a Modern Chinese Physician, published by Heffer, Cambridge, in 1959.

Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865–2015

Author : Liping Bu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317541359
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865–2015 written by Liping Bu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in 1949 to 73 in 2010; relates developments in public health to prevailing political ideologies; and discusses how the drivers of health improvements were, unlike in the West, modern medical professionals and intellectuals who understood that, whatever the prevailing ideology, China needs to be a strong country. The book explores how public health concepts, policies, programmes, institutions and practices changed and developed through social and political upheavals, war, and famine, and argues that this perspective of China’s development is refreshingly different from China’s development viewed purely in political terms.

Poisons of the Past

Author : Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300051216
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Poisons of the Past written by Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did food poisoning cause the Black Plague, the Salem witch-hunts, and other significant events in human history? In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period. "A bold book with a stimulating thesis. Matossian's claims for the role of food poisoning will need to be incorporated into any satisfactory account of past demographic trends."--John Walter, Nature "Matossian's work is innovative and original, modest and reasoned, and opens a door on our general human past that historians have not only ignored, but often did not even know existed."--William Richardson, Environmental History Review "This work demonstrates an impressive variety of cross-national sources. Its broad sweep also reveals the importance of the history of agriculture and food and strengthens the view that the shift from the consumption of mold-poisoned rye bread to the potato significantly contributed to an improvement in the mental and physical health of Europeans and Americans."--Naomi Rogers, Journal of American History "This work is a true botanical-historical tour de force."--Rudolf Schmid, Journal of the International Association of Plant Taxonomy "Intriguing and lucid."--William K. Beatty, Journal of the American Medical Association

Hygienic Modernity

Author : Ruth Rogaski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520930606
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Hygienic Modernity written by Ruth Rogaski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-11-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng—which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary," "health," or "public health"—as it emerged in the complex treaty-port environment of Tianjin. Before the late nineteenth century, weisheng was associated with diverse regimens of diet, meditation, and self-medication. Hygienic Modernity reveals how meanings of weisheng, with the arrival of violent imperialism, shifted from Chinese cosmology to encompass such ideas as national sovereignty, laboratory knowledge, the cleanliness of bodies, and the fitness of races: categories in which the Chinese were often deemed lacking by foreign observers and Chinese elites alike.

中国医史

Author : Jimin Wang
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9787532628100
Total Pages : 925 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book 中国医史 written by Jimin Wang and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a chronicle of medical happenings in China from ancient times down to the present day. It meets a long-felt demand for a concise and authoritative account of one of the most fascinating subjects in the evolutionary story of the Chinese people. The book consists of two parts: the first part deals with pure Chinese art and practice while the second part covers events after the advent of occidental medicine. Of late, considerable interest has been centered on China and things Chinese. This new edition, containing an epitome of all that is known both of the development of the indigenous art and the impact of modern medical science, will be greeted with an enthusiastic response. The author has spent over 16 years on this work. Hundreds of books and articles, both in English and Chinese, have been consulted and several doctors of the old school have been engaged to offer their expertise.

Plague Prevention and Politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931

Author : Carl F. Nathan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Plague Prevention and Politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931 written by Carl F. Nathan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plague prevention in Manchuria in the second and third decades of this century became an urgent matter both of public health and of politics. If the virulent pneumonic plague could not be quarantined and suppressed, all North China and even nearby countries might be endangered. If China could not deal with the plague, Japan, Russia, and indeed the whole outside world would be justified in moving into Manchuria to do the job, and China's already limited sovereignty there would be further weakened.

The World Health Organization

Author : Marcos Cueto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483577
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The World Health Organization written by Marcos Cueto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.

Chinese Medicine and Healing

Author : TJ Hinrichs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674047370
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Medicine and Healing written by TJ Hinrichs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In covering the subject of Chinese medicine, this book addresses topics such as oracle bones, the treatment of women, fertility and childbirth, nutrition, acupuncture, and Qi as well as examining Chinese medicine as practiced globally in places such as Africa, Australia, Vietnam, Korea, and the United States.

Plague in the Orient

Author : Liande Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Plague in the Orient written by Liande Wu and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown

Author : Guenter B. Risse
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421405105
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown written by Guenter B. Risse and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When health officials in San Francisco discovered bubonic plague in their city’s Chinatown in 1900, they responded with intrusive, controlling, and arbitrary measures that touched off a sociocultural conflict still relevant today. Guenter B. Risse’s history of an epidemic is the first to incorporate the voices of those living in Chinatown at the time, including the desperately ill Wong Chut King, believed to be the first person infected. Lasting until 1904, the plague in San Francisco's Chinatown reignited racial prejudices, renewed efforts to remove the Chinese from their district, and created new tensions among local, state, and federal public health officials quarreling over the presence of the deadly disease. Risse's rich, nuanced narrative of the event draws from a variety of sources, including Chinese-language reports and accounts. He addresses the ecology of Chinatown, the approaches taken by Chinese and Western medical practitioners, and the effects of quarantine plans on Chinatown and its residents. Risse explains how plague threatened California’s agricultural economy and San Francisco’s leading commercial role with Asia, discusses why it brought on a wave of fear mongering that drove perceptions and intervention efforts, and describes how Chinese residents organized and successfully opposed government quarantines and evacuation plans in federal court. By probing public health interventions in the setting of one of the most visible ethnic communities in United States history, Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco’s Chinatown offers insight into the clash of Eastern and Western cultures in a time of medical emergency.

The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911

Author : William C. Summers
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183194
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911 written by William C. Summers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summers covers the complex political and economic background of early 20th-century Manchuria and then moves on to the plague itself, addressing the various contested stories of the plague's origins, development and ecological ties.

Epidemics Resulting from Wars

Author : Friedrich Prinzing
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London : H. Milford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Epidemics Resulting from Wars written by Friedrich Prinzing and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London : H. Milford. This book was released on 1916 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Winter Station

Author : Jody Shields
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316385336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Winter Station written by Jody Shields and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Must-Read Book by the NY Post An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world. 1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some of the dead bodies vanish before they can be identified. During a dangerously cold winter in a city gripped by fear, the Baron, a wealthy Russian aristocrat and the city's medical commissioner, is determined to stop this mysterious plague. Battling local customs, an occupying army, and a brutal epidemic with no name, the Baron is torn between duty and compassion, between Western medical science and respect for Chinese tradition. His allies include a French doctor, a black marketeer, and a charismatic Chinese dwarf. His greatest refuge is the intimacy he shares with his young Chinese wife - but she has secrets of her own. Based on a true story that has been lost to history, set during the last days of imperial Russia, THE WINTER STATION is a richly textured and brilliant novel about mortality, fear and love.

A Way of Life

Author : Judith Farquhar
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252676
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A Way of Life written by Judith Farquhar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short and thoughtful introduction to traditional Chinese medicine that looks beyond the conventional boundaries of Western modernism and biomedical science Traditional Chinese medicine is often viewed as mystical or superstitious, with outcomes requiring naïve faith. Judith Farquhar, drawing on her hard-won knowledge of social, intellectual, and clinical worlds in today’s China, here offers a concise and nuanced treatment that addresses enduring and troublesome ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions. In this work, which is based on her 2017 Terry Lectures “Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine,” she considers how the modern, rationalized, and scientific field of traditional Chinese medicine constructs its very real objects (bodies, symptoms, drugs), how experts think through and sort out pathology and health (yinyang, right qi/wrong qi, stasis, flow), and how contemporary doctors act responsibly to “seek out the root” of bodily disorder. Through this refined investigation, East-West contrasts collapse, and systematic Chinese medicine, no longer a mystery or a pseudo-science, can become a philosophical ally and a rich resource for a more capacious science.

Development Centre Studies Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run

Author : Maddison Angus
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264163557
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Development Centre Studies Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run written by Maddison Angus and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-09-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries, but which have not hitherto been available for China.