Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan / Edition 1

by Ming-cheng Lo, Jennier Robertson

Overview

This book explores 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520234857
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	08/21/2002
Series:	Colonialisms , #1
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ming-cheng M. Lo is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables
Foreword, by Jennifer Robertson
Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization

1. Taiwanese Doctors under Japanese Rule: Confronting Contradictions and Negotiating Identities
2. Taiwan: A Nexus of Colonial Forces
3. National Physicians (1920–1931)
4. The Years of Public Demobilization (1931–1936)
5. Medical Modernists (1937–1945)
6. Borders of Medicine: The Dôjinkai Projects in China
7. Professional Identities, Colonial Ambiguities, and Agents of Modernity

Appendix: Sources and Data
Glossary
References
Index