Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia

Liping Bu is Professor of History at Alma College, Michigan. Her publications include Making the World Like Us: Education, Cultural Expansion, and the American Century. Darwin H. Stapleton is Professor of History at University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Executive Director Emeritus of the Rockefeller Archive Center, USA. He is the editor of Creating a Tradition of Biomedical Research: Contributions to the History of The Rockefeller University. Ka-che Yip is Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. Recent publications include, as editor, Disease, Colonialism, and the State: Malaria in East Asian History.

• 1. Introduction 2. Science, Culture, and Disease Control in Colonial Hong Kong 3. Public Health in Prewar Singapore: The Development of Hospital Services and Medical Education 4. Hygiene and Decolonization: The Rockefeller Foundation and Indonesian Nationalism, 1933-1958 5. The Alma-Ata Declaration, Rockefeller Foundation and the Development of Primary Health Care in Sri Lanka: A Model for Health Promotion 6. "Removing the Obstacles to Public Health Work": Rockefeller Initiatives in Public Health in China and Japan and its Effects, 1925-1950 7. From Race Biology to Population Control: The Rockefeller Foundation’s "Public Health" Projects in Japan, 1920s-1950s 8. Beijing First Health Station: Innovative Public Health Education and Influence on China’s Health Profession 9. Between the State and the Private Sphere: The Chinese State Medicine Movement, 1930-1949 10. From Japanese Colonial Medicine to American-Standard Medicine in Taiwan – A Case Study of the Transition in the Medical Profession and Practices in East Asia 11. In Republican China, Public Health by Whom, for Whom

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