The Role and Influence of American Medical Missionaries in the Modern Hygiene Movement in Canton, 1835–1935
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 7094776 |
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| Autores | Guangqiu Xu (Friends University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2012 |
| Volumen | 11 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 60-92 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2012-04-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Journal of Comparative Asian Development (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1533-9114 • E-ISSN: 2150-5403 |
| Editorial | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15339114.2012.668112 |
| OpenAlex | W1986165785 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 11 |
The American medical missionary movement in the 19th and 20th centuries in South China was one of the important movements to influence the country. This movement had an impact on hygiene modernization in China generally and in Canton particularly. The American doctors in Canton not only criticized the Chinese for lacking modern concepts of bodily cleanliness and fitness, but also participated in campaigns against contagious disease. Both American doctors and the Cantonese government took part in the hygiene and health management of Cantonese residents. This article focuses on how the American medical missionaries encouraged the Cantonese to change their unhygienic habits and to improve the unsanitary environment of Canton, conducted vaccination work, fought the plague, treated opium addicts and lepers, and promoted rural hygiene and health work. This article also studies how the Cantonese elites, encouraged by Americans and impressed by Western preventive medicines and measures to some degree, advocated sanitary modernization, and how the Cantonese medical professionals and the Canton government worked together to launch a public health and hygiene movement in Canton in the 1920s and 1930s. Placing meanings of health and disease at the centre of modern Cantonese consciousness, this article argues that, partially under the American doctors' influence, modern hygiene became an essential element in the formulation of Cantonese modernity. Hygienic modernity not only transformed Canton but also manipulated the Cantonese perception of hygiene requirements for national survival in a modern world
China · Economic growth · Government (linguistics · Hygiene · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Public health · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Medicine · Nursing
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |