Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam - Doctors within Borders : Profession, Ethnicity and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan

Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xii,236 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. A label to front cover. VG. ¶ Series: Colonialisms, 1. 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 Dojinkai projects in China -- Professional identities, colonial ambiguities, and agents of modernity. ["An exploration of 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-cheng Lo unearths the points of convergence for medicine and politics in colonial Taiwan" - Publisher's description].