Form Follows Fever Malaria And The Making Of Hong Kong 1841 1848
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Form Follows Fever Malaria And The Making Of Hong Kong 1841 1848
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Author : Christopher Ainslie Cowell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Form Follows Fever Malaria And The Making Of Hong Kong 1841 1848 written by Christopher Ainslie Cowell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Great Britain categories.
Form Follows Fever Malaria And The Making Of Hong Kong 1841 1848
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Release Date : 2009
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Form Follows Fever
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Author : Christopher Cowell
language : en
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2024-03-14
Form Follows Fever written by Christopher Cowell and has been published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Architecture categories.
Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent early years of settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s. During this period, the island gained a terrible reputation as a diseased and deadly location. Malaria, then perceived as a mysterious vapour or miasma, intermittently carried off settlers by the hundreds. Various attempts to arrest its effects acted as a catalyst, reconfiguring both the city’s physical and political landscape, though not necessarily for the better. Caught in a frenzy to rebuild the city in the devastating aftermath, this book charts the complex interplay between a cast of figures, from military surveyors, naval doctors, Indian sepoys, and corrupt and paranoid officials to opium traders, arsonists, Chinese contractors, and sojourner architects and artists. However, Hong Kong’s ‘construction’ was not just physical but also imagined. Architecture, cartography, epidemiology, and urban infrastructure offer a critical forensic lens through which to examine the shifting ideologies of public health and space, race and place-making, and commerce and politics, all set against the radical alteration of the settlement—from shore-hugging to climbing city—in response to miasma theory, a pre-bacteriological belief in gaseous emanations from a sickly environment. This kaleidoscopic study draws upon many unpublished textual sources, including medical reports, personal diaries and letters, government records, journal accounts, newspaper articles, and advertisements. As this history is set a decade before the introduction of photography to the colony, the book relies upon a variety of alternate visual evidence—from previously lost watercolour illustrations of the city to maps, plans, and drawings— that individually and in combination provide trace material enabling the reconstruction of this strange and rapidly evolving society. Form Follows Fever sheds new light on a period often considered the colonial Dark Ages in the territory’s history. ------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Cowell’s account of British Hong Kong offers the most detailed account yet of the crucial first decade of the colony’s existence. His engagement with the medley of actors, from across the globe, that contributed to the colony’s ultimate success is both intriguing and revealing. It is a brilliant miniature of colonial urban development in action. —Alex Bremner, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh This is a beautifully written book. Cowell offers fresh perspectives on how malaria played a decisive role in shaping the forms of the colonial built environment and the future course of the city. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Hong Kong history and urbanism. —Cecilia L. Chu, School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong A wonderfully rich and detailed architectural history of Hong Kong’s first decade as a British colony that sheds new light on the consequential effects of disease and climate on what was built, by whom, and why. —Cole Roskam, Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong Form Follows Fever shows how Hong Kong’s path from a so-called ‘barren island’ to a thriving port city was often a perilous one. It is a wonderfully original and insightful study that weaves together an unlikely melange of urban history, military engineering, and medical history. —John M. Carroll, Department of History, The University of Hong Kong
A Medical History Of Hong Kong
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Author : Moira M W Chan-Yeung
language : en
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2018-11-30
A Medical History Of Hong Kong written by Moira M W Chan-Yeung and has been published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-30 with Medical categories.
This book tells the fascinating story of the development of medical and sanitation services in Hong Kong during the first century of British rule and how changing political values and directions of the colonial administration and the socio-economic status of the Hong Kong affected the policies of development in these areas. It also recounts how the bubonic plague of 1894 changed the government's laissez-faire attitude towards sanitation and public health and began sanitary reforms and developed public health infrastructure.
Imperial Contagions
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Author : Robert Peckham
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Imperial Contagions written by Robert Peckham and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with History categories.
Imperial Contagions argues that there was no straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to a newer emphasis on prevention and treatment of disease among indigenous populations as well as European residents. It shows that colonial medicine was not at all homogeneous "on the ground" but was riven with tensions and contradictions. Indigenous elites contested and appropriated Western medical knowledge and practices for their own purposes. Colonial policies contained contradictory and cross-cutting impulses. This book challenges assumptions that colonial regimes were uniformly able to regulate indigenous bodies and that colonial medicine served as a "tool of empire."
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Author : 潘鬘（May Holdsworth）、文基賢（Christopher Munn）
language : zh-CN
Publisher: 中華書局(香港)有限公司
Release Date : 2023-07-10
written by 潘鬘（May Holdsworth）、文基賢（Christopher Munn） and has been published by 中華書局(香港)有限公司 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-10 with History categories.
中區警署、中央裁判司署和域多利監獄矗立在香港中環的核心地帶的山坡上，三座建築物彼此毗鄰，曾經是香港建立警隊、法律與刑罰制度的起始地，涉及犯罪、正義、刑罰，是光明與黑暗同處之所。這個圍牆環繞的建築群，現經修復而成為名為「大館」的古蹟和藝術中心。 本書蒐羅了豐富圖片，從大館的三個主體建築結構談起，生動地描述了從 1841 年至 20 世紀末，穿梭其中的人物和他們的故事，包括裁判司、獄卒和警員、小偷和惡棍、小販和街頭男孩、落魄者、妓女、賭徒、債務人和乞丐等，見證香港警務、法制與監獄歷史的開端，以及香港百年發展的社會眾生相。
Anglo China
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Author : Christopher Munn
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-01
Anglo China written by Christopher Munn and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-01 with History categories.
For its earliest promoters, Hong Kong was an island 'bespread with palaces, a beautifully and well ordered city, a miracle of British enterprise and dormant power' at the edge of a crumbling Chinese Empire. This 'capital of Anglo-China', as some of them called it, was a place where Chinese and Europeans could freely exchange goods and ideas under a benevolent and progressive British rule. Nineteenth-century Hong Kong was all of that. But it was also a struggling frontier settlement, troubled by crime and war, divided by race, and periodically rocked by controversy. Through a succession of experiments in government, early British officials sought ways of managing a politically complex Chinese population, who, though essential to Hong Kong's economic success, seemed intractable to traditional colonial methods. The uneasy solutions that emerged combined heavy policing of the lower classes and shaky collaboration with a burgeoning Chinese merchant elite. Anglo-China traces the development of colonial rule in early British Hong Kong. Drawing on a variety of hitherto neglected sources, the book also explores how the daily practice of government affected the lives of people in the region – and how they in turn sought to shape colonial rule.
The Pandemic Century
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Author : Mark Honigsbaum
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-09
The Pandemic Century written by Mark Honigsbaum and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-09 with History categories.
Like sharks, epidemic diseases always lurk just beneath the surface. This fast-paced history of their effect on mankind prompts questions about the limits of scientific knowledge, the dangers of medical hubris, and how we should prepare as epidemics become ever more frequent. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu and the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 'parrot fever' pandemic and the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. These pandemics remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge, as well as the role that human behaviour and technologies play in the emergence and spread of microbial diseases.
The Cambridge History Of Medicine
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Author : Roy Porter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-06-05
The Cambridge History Of Medicine written by Roy Porter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-05 with Medical categories.
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.
On Their Own Terms
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
On Their Own Terms written by Benjamin A. Elman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.