Doctors Within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan Volume 1

by Ming-Cheng M. Lo

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520234855
• ISBN13: 9780520234857
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"