Lexington Books
Pages: 362
Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-0-7391-0369-2 • Hardback • June 2002 • $132.00 • (£102.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
Kerrie L. MacPherson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong.
Chapter 1 Introduction: 'A Most Unlikely Place'
Chapter 2 The Climatological Reconnaissance
Chapter 3 The Elaboration of a Medical Topography
Chapter 4 Sanitary Reform: Prelude to Pure Water
Chapter 5 'The Best of its Kind': The Shanghai Waterworks
Chapter 6 Salus Populi Suprema Lex: The Evolution of Public Medicine
Chapter 7 A Charitable Enterprise: The Chinese Hospital
Chapter 8 From the Eleemosynary to the Quasi-public: The Transformation of the Shanghai General Hospital
Chapter 9 State Medicine and the Experiment of the Lock Hospital
Chapter 10 Conclusion: The Foundation of a Community
This is a fascinating work of scholarship that sheds much light on the processes of the public regulation of the environment in a Chinese city. . . . Kerrie MacPherson has given us an informative case study, well researched and meticulously referenced, full of insight and rich in potential for comparative analysis.
— Planning Perspectives
Kerrie MacPherson has written a highly original book . . . which provides a penetrating and authoritative view of foreign medical and health activities in China.
— James H. Cassidy, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine
The scope of this book . . . offers a sweeping view of the public health movement as it emerged in the West as seen through the prism of a Western outpost in the Celestial empire. . . . While the book offers important lessons for primary care in the developing world, it should be of equal interest to the student of health policy and its history in industralized society.
— Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
This book throws fascinating light on an important aspect of Shanghai's social and economic history which has hitherto been disregarded. . . . It deserves to be read . . . by a wide audience.
— China Quarterly
The book is at once urban studies, comparative history, and modern Chinese studies. It is a solid, pioneering, and scholarly contribution. The overall thesis and minor themes have made it necessary for us to re-examine generally perceived notions about the development of Chinese cities. . . . It is historical writing at its best.
— Asian Journal of Public Administration
We can particularly applaud this well-constructed and original study
— Times Literary Supplement