Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia

Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-Che Yip, Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-Che Yip

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780415665667
• eBook ISBN: 9781136618680
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference
• Index: Social Sciences

This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe and the United States to several Asian countries — Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Japan, Taiwan, and China — and local interactions with, and transformations of, these public health models and approaches from the nineteenth century to the 1950s. Taking a critical look at assumptions about the objectiveness of science, the book highlights the use of scientific knowledge for political control, cultural manipulation, social transformation and economic needs. It rigorously and systematically investigates the historical developments of public health concepts, policies, institutions, and how these practices changed from colonial, to post-colonial and into the present day.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction Interpreting science and public health in modern Asia
• 1 Science, culture, and disease control in colonial Hong Kong
• 2 Public health in pre-war Singapore The development of hospital services and medical education
• 3 Hygiene and decolonization The Rockefeller Foundation and Indonesian nationalism, 1933–1958
• 4 he Alma-Ata Declaration, Rockefeller Foundation and development of primary health care in Sri Lanka A model for health promotion
• 5 “Removing the obstacles to public health work”1 Context for the Rockefeller philanthropies and public health in China and Japan, 1920–1940
• 6 From race biology to population control The Rockefeller Foundation's “Public Health” projects in Japan, 1920s–1950s
• 7 Beijing First Health Station Innovative public health education and influence on China's health profession
• 8 Between the state and the private sphere Chinese state medicine movement, 1930–1949
• 9 From Japanese colonial medicine to American-standard medicine in Taiwan A case study of the transition in the medical profession and practices in East Asia
• 10 In Republican China, public health by whom, for whom?
• Conclusion
• Index