Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science Technology And Medicine
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Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science Technology And Medicine
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Author : Alan Kam Leung Chan
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2002-07-24
Historical Perspectives On East Asian Science Technology And Medicine written by Alan Kam Leung Chan and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-24 with Science categories.
Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine brings together over fifty papers by leading contemporary historians from more than a dozen nations. It is the third in a series of books growing out of the tri-annual International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, the largest and most prestigious gathering of scholars in the field. The current volume broadens the field's traditional focus on China to include path-breaking work on Vietnam, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and even the transmission of Asian science and technology to Europe and the United States. Topics covered include: traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino medicines; Chinese astronomy; Japanese earthquakes; science and technology policy; architecture; the digital revolution; and much else.
East Asian Science Technology And Medicine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
East Asian Science Technology And Medicine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Medicine categories.
Beyond Joseph Needham
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Author : Pnina G. Abir-Am
language : en
Publisher: Commemorations Osiris
Release Date : 2000
Beyond Joseph Needham written by Pnina G. Abir-Am and has been published by Commemorations Osiris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Science categories.
This volume breaks new ground in the study of how national culture, disciplinary tradition, epistemological choice, and political expediency affect the construction of collective memory. Essays focus on a variety of commemorative rites, ranging from the quincentenary of Copernicus to anniversaries of research schools in molecular biology.
Current Perspectives In The History Of Science In East Asia
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Author : Yung Sik Kim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Current Perspectives In The History Of Science In East Asia written by Yung Sik Kim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Science categories.
Science Technology And Medicine In The Modern Japanese Empire
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Author : David G. Wittner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Science Technology And Medicine In The Modern Japanese Empire written by David G. Wittner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with History categories.
Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different from other Asian countries and thus justify its imperialist activities, but also to position itself within the civilized and enlightened world with the advantages of modern science, technologies, and medicine. This book explores the ways in which scientists, engineers and physicians worked directly and indirectly to support the creation of a new Japanese empire, focussing on the eve of World War I and linking their efforts to later post-war developments. By claiming status as a modern, internationally-engaged country, the Japanese government was faced with having to control pathogens that might otherwise not have threatened the nation. Through the use of traditional and innovative techniques, this volume shows how the government was able to fulfil the state’s responsibility to protect society to varying degrees. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Integrating East Asian Medicine Into Contemporary Healthcare E Book
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Author : Volker Scheid
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Release Date : 2011-10-24
Integrating East Asian Medicine Into Contemporary Healthcare E Book written by Volker Scheid and has been published by Elsevier Health Sciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-24 with Medical categories.
Traditional East Asian healthcare systems have moved rapidly from the fringes of healthcare systems in the West towards the centre over the past 50 years. This change of status for traditional medicines presents their practitioners with both opportunities and challenges as the focus shifts from one of opposition towards one of integration into biomedically dominated healthcare systems. Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare examines the opportunities and challenges of integrating East Asian medicine into Western healthcare systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. Volker Scheid and Hugh MacPherson bring together contributions from acknowledged experts from a number of different disciplines - including clinical researchers, Chinese Medicine practitioners, historians, medical anthropologists, experts in the social studies of science, technology and medicine - to examine and debate the impact of the evidence-based medicine movement on the ongoing modernization of East Asian medicines. The book considers the following questions: •What are the values, goals and ethics implicit within traditional East Asian medical practices? • What claims to effectiveness and safety are made by East Asian medical practices? •What is at stake in subjecting these medical practices to biomedical models of evaluation? • What constitutes best practice? How is it to be defined and measured? • What are the ideologies and politics behind the process of integration of East Asian medical practices into modern health care systems? • What can we learn from a variety of models of integration into contemporary healthcare?
A History Of Korean Science And Technology
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Author : Sang-un Chŏn
language : en
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Release Date : 2011
A History Of Korean Science And Technology written by Sang-un Chŏn and has been published by National University of Singapore Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
Utilizing rare pictures and offering detailed explanations of the heritage of traditional Korean science from the Bronze Age to the Joseon Dynasty, this book takes a fresh look at the history of Korean science.
Gender Health And History In Modern East Asia
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Author : Angela Ki Che Leung
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Gender Health And History In Modern East Asia written by Angela Ki Che Leung 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 2017-11-22 with History categories.
This groundbreaking volume captures and analyzes the exhilarating and at times disorienting experience when scientists, government officials, educators, and the general public in East Asia tried to come to terms with the introduction of Western biological and medical sciences to the region. The nexus of gender and health is a compelling theme, for this is an area in which private lives and personal characteristics encounter the interventions of public policies. The nine empirically based studies by scholars of history of medicine, sociology, anthropology, and STS (science, technology, and society), spanning Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from the 1870s to the present, demonstrate just how tightly concerns with gender and health have been woven into the enterprise of modernization and nation-building throughout the long twentieth century. The concepts of “gender” and “health” have become so commonly used that one might overlook that they are actually complicated notions with vexed histories even in their native contexts. Transposing such terminologies into another historical or geographical dimension is fraught with problems, and what makes the East Asian cases in this volume particularly illuminating is that they present concepts of gender and health in motion. The studies show how individuals and societies made sense of modern scientific discourses on diseases, body, sex, and reproduction, redefining existing terms in the process and adopting novel ideas to face new challenges and demands. “Whether reviewing the comparative national histories of birth control, debating early cases of transsexual surgery, or highlighting the resurgence of ‘traditional’ Asian medical commodities, this volume provides accessible and productive studies on these intriguing topics in Asia. Scholars of modern East Asia and indeed anyone concerned with the analysis of gender and health in light of intersecting postcolonial studies will find the book rewarding.” —Rayna Rapp, New York University “A bold and important volume that explores the interweaving of gender, body, and modernity throughout East Asia. With vivid articles on sexuality, reproductive technologies, and sexual identities, the book opens multiple possibilities for how ‘Asia as method’ can shine new light on persistent theoretical questions from biopower to biocitizenship.” —Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University
Historical Perspectives On Contemporary East Asia
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Author : Merle Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2000-08-15
Historical Perspectives On Contemporary East Asia written by Merle Goldman 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 2000-08-15 with History categories.
In these original essays, distinguished scholars of modern East Asia distill from long years of research interpretive accounts of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, Japan, and Korea. All of the contributors describe particular features of the modern experience of East Asian countries, while also addressing common themes.
Histories Of Health In Southeast Asia
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Author : Tim Harper
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Histories Of Health In Southeast Asia written by Tim Harper and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Medical categories.
Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with China and India. In this volume leading scholars provide a new approach to the history of health in Southeast Asia. Framed by a series of synoptic pieces on the "Landscapes of Health" in Southeast Asia in 1914, 1950, and 2014 the essays interweave local, national, and regional perspectives. They range from studies of long-term processes such as changing epidemics, mortality and aging, and environmental history to detailed accounts of particular episodes: the global cholera epidemic and the hajj, the influenza epidemic of 1918, WWII, and natural disasters. The writers also examine state policy on healthcare and the influence of organizations, from NGOs such as the China Medical Board and the Rockefeller Foundation to grassroots organizations in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.