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Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003

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Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003 Synopsis

Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control potential threats to health. It shows how policies impacted the various Chinese and non-Chinese groups, and how policies were often formulated as a result of negotiations between these different groups. By considering developments over a long historical period, the book contrasts the different approaches in the periods of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, post-war reconstruction, transition to decolonization, and Hong Kong as Special Administrative Region within the People's Republic of China.

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ISBN: 9780815356240
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Author: Kache Yip, Yuansheng Liang, Wenjiang Huang
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 144 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Genres: Society and culture: general
Infectious and contagious diseases
Public health and preventive medicine
Regional / International studies
History

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