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Conflict, Co-existence and Continuity - Chinese versus Western Medicine in Hong Kong: The Case of Kwong Wah Hospital (1910s to 1940s).

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Title/Author:	Conflict, Co-existence and Continuity - Chinese versus Western Medicine in Hong Kong: The Case of Kwong Wah Hospital (1910s to 1940s)./
Author:	Lee, Sam Yuen John.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	358 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-05A.
Subject:	Asian History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=11012147
ISBN:	9780438658493

Conflict, Co-existence and Continuity - Chinese versus Western Medicine in Hong Kong: The Case of Kwong Wah Hospital (1910s to 1940s).
Lee, Sam Yuen John.

Conflict, Co-existence and Continuity - Chinese versus Western Medicine in Hong Kong: The Case of Kwong Wah Hospital (1910s to 1940s). - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 358 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis discusses the adaptation and evolution of Western medicine in the Hong Kong Chinese community through the case of a Chinese hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital. The research outcomes provide insights to understanding public health governance of the Hong Kong colonial government as well as cultural conflicts between Chinese and Western medicine in Hong Kong society. Large volumes and consistent historical materials were made available by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Archives, such as minutes of the board of directors of Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospital, minutes of the Tung Wah Hospital Medical Committee, annual reports of Tung Wah Hospital and Kwong Wah Hospital, and correspondence of the Tung Wah Group of hospitals. These materials are indispensable for the study, in particular, the discovery of over 178 volumes of Admission and Discharge Registries of Kwong Wah Hospital in 2011 covering the period from 1917 to 1940. These registries, containing the data of 269,431 in-patients, reveal detailed information on all the daily patients admitted to the hospital - records on each patient's name, gender, age, place of dwelling, sickness(s), treatment by either Chinese or Western medicine, and treatment outcome. A picture can be drawn on the composition of the hospital's in-patients, providing useful hints on the changes of Hong Kong's Chinese society and population. Moreover, comparison can be made between Chinese and Western medicine in regard to their effectiveness in treating the same type of sickness. By combining the data from the hospital's registries and the Tung Wah archives, this study reveals the political wrestling between the colonial government and the hospital board in regard to Westernisation of medical treatment in the hospital, as well as the economic, social and public health factors prevailing in Hong Kong during the period from the 1910s to the 1940s. It is believed that Western medicine was introduced to the Hong Kong Chinese community after the outbreak of the bubonic plague in 1894 as evidenced by the colonial government's critical comments against Tung Wah Hospital, which practised Chinese medicine, and the implementation of management policies to promote Western medicine in Kwong Wah Hospital. However, the fluctuating cure rates of Western medical treatments for most of the common diseases of in-patients before 1928 failed to improve the impression of Chinese of Western medicine. Thanks to the comprehensive and valuable data contained in Kwong Wah Hospital's Admission and Discharge Registries, this pioneering work has succeeded in identifying the turning point in popularising Western medicine in the early 1920s. This is a ground-breaking research that allows comparison and analysis of the debate about the effectiveness of Chinese medicine vis-a-vis Western medicine in modern China. The high success rate of Western maternity service altered the Hong Kong Chinese community's attitude towards Western medicine. It is also important to know that the hospital's management played a leading role in the introduction of Western maternity service as well as promoting its training to the Chinese community.

ISBN: 9780438658493Subjects--Topical Terms:

2088436
Asian History.
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Chinese hospitals

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