Introduction: China and the Globalization of Biomedicine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. List of Abbreviations xvii
7. Introduction: China and the Globalization of Biomedicine 1
8. Part One. Hygiene and Disease Construction in Late Qing China
9. 1 Reflections on the Modernity of Sanitation Policies in the Late Qing Dynasty 37
10. 2 Discovering Diseases: Research on the Globalization of Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century China 50
11. Part Two. The Indigenization of Biomedicine in Republican China
12. 3 Globalizing Biomedicine through Sino-Japanese Networks: The Case of National Medical College, Beijing, 1912–1937 81
13. 4 An Abortive Amalgamation: Multiple Western-Style Doctors in Republican China, 1927–1937 109
14. 5 Shanghai’s Female Doctors: A Discussion of the Gendered Politics of Modern Medical Professionalization 131
15. Part Three. The Spread of Biomedicine to Southwest China, 1937–1945
16. 6 A Social History of Wartime Nursing Training in Hunan, 1937–1945 159
17. 7 Frontiers of Immunology: Medical Migrations to Yunnan, Vaccine Research, and Public Health during the War with Japan, 1937–1945 183
18. 8 Serving the People: Chen Zhiqian and the Sichuan Provincial Health Administration, 1939–1945 215
19. Afterword: Western Medicine and Global Health 232
20. List of Chinese and Japanese Terms and Names 243
21. Selected Bibliography 247
22. List of Contributors 259
23. Index 261