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Book SynopsisModern Colonization by Medical Intervention adds to our understanding of the political and economic transformations establishing colonial modernity in Puerto Rico. By focusing on influential physicians’ clinical work and their access to a remote and inaccessible rural population, this volume details how rural areas suffered the ravages of social dislocation, unemployment and hunger. The colonial administration’s hookworm campaign involved many Puerto Rican physicians in complex struggles with other elites, rural peasants and U.S. colonial administrators for political legitimacy. Puerto Rican physicians did not gain the professional autonomy their counterparts in the United States enjoyed. Instead, they became centrally implicated in the struggle between labor and capital enforcing the island’s subordination to a colonial modernity and the development of capitalism on the island.Trade Review"Trujillo-Pagán’s book is provocative, and invites scholars most likely from history, anthropology, medicine, and public health to read, and why not, do similar tasks in colonial and postcolonial scenarios. [... Her] analysis provides analytic tools for critically approaching and understanding medical interventions, the emergence of public health, and the clashes that emerge between allopathic medicine and other ways of understanding death and sickness under processes of modernization and colonialism. [...] This book is an invitation to create post-Foucauldian analyses in the tropics to reveal power and resistance relationships in the context of medical and public health discourses and practices. Héctor Camilo Ruiz Sánchez (University of Pittsburgh, USA), International Sociology Reviews 2015, Vol. 30(5) 467–471.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures 1. A Matter of Life and Death Economy and Social Conditions: Labor and Hunger Medicine: Hookworms Method The Scholarship on Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Hookworm in Puerto Rico Chapter Outline 2. Anemia and Autonomy A “New” Colonial Structure Bread and Butter Issues Party Politics Anemia, Autonomy and the Public Health Administration in Puerto Rico The Changing Meaning of Professional and Political Autonomy 3. Colonial Interventions on Public Health and the Bifurcation of Puerto Rican Medicine The Hookworm-Anemia Campaign as Public Health 4. National Physicians and Professional Prestige Professional Status Status in Urban and “Threatening” Rural Spaces Medical Practitioners in the Late Nineteenth Century: One of Many Municipal Physicians and State Competition: Spain Licensing and State Control Under Spanish Colonial Authority Elite Physicians’ Ideas about their Imagined Community (the Nation) Ideas about the Nation: From Spanish to U.S. colonization Licensing and State Control under U.S. Colonial Authority Municipal Physicians and U.S. State Competition: The Public Health Administration The Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico: Nationalism, Class and Labor Professional Presentation and Status 5. Race, “Progress” and National Identity Professionals and Intellectuals among Liberal Elites Labor as Progress Land as Tropical Environment Social Conditions and the Colonial Relationship Death and Resuscitation in Tropical Medicine Recapitalizing Elites The War Waged in the Utuado Clinic Soiling Land and the Right to Rebel The Medical Men who Shaped a New Medical Discourse 6. Decolonizing Dominant Narratives The Public Interest(s) Colonial Modernity The Colonial Narrative and The Great Man of Puerto Rican Medical Science Puerto Rican Physicians: Double Binds and Messy Realities Tropical Medicine and Global Health Post- and Neo-Coloniality Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems. Epidemic diseases killed tens of millions, drought, flood and famine killed many more, and unhygienic birthing led to serious maternal and child mortality. The Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, and the nationwide War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945), imposed a further tide of misery. Troubled by this extensive trauma, a small number of healthcare reformers were able to save tens of thousands of lives, promote hygiene and sanitation, and begin to bring battlefield casualties, communicable diseases, and maternal child mortality under control. This study shows how biomedical physicians and public health practitioners were major contributors to the rise of modern China.Trade Review"John Watt, an accomplished historian of China and former medical foundation executive shows how medical and public health practitioners saved lives and created a public health system during the turbulent decades from 1930-1945." Ezra Vogel, Emeritus Professor, Harvard University "John Watt offers readers a wide-ranging and intimate view of health care in 20th-century wartime China. [...] Scholars interested in public health and 20th-century Chinese history will find this book invaluable." Tina Phillips Johnson, Assistant Professor of History and Director of Chinese Studies at St. Vincent College, The China Quarterly, 218, June 2014, pp. 582-583. "Capturing the drama – people, disease, poverty and Japanese war – of two crucial decades of health and social transformation in China, Watt’s history covers a major lacunae in understanding China past and future." Lincoln Chen, President of the China Medical Board "John Watt has lived close to the rich social and medical history of twentieth century China. His book details wartime crises from 1928 to 1945, showing how the developing sciences of biomedicine and public health mitigated chaos and death and began rural China’s transformation into the modern world." Richard N. Pierson, Jr., M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University, and Chair of the Board, ABMAC Foundation "[John Watt's] book certainly deserves Ezra Vogel's praise as the work of an accomplished historian of China and even more that of Lincoln Chen for 'capturing the drama' of the transformation of health care in China...[Watt] also gives us a new perspective on the genius of Mao who overcame the superstitions of peasants who earlier fled medical aid by making them see 'the white-coated warriors' as saviors of the revolution, and saviors of their sons and daughters unlike the Nationalists who simply felt they could conscript more bodies[...]I hope Saving Lives in Wartime China receives the wide notice it deserves." Gerald Grant, Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education (retired), Syracuse University "This very informative book includes dozens of photographs, maps, tables, and graphs, making this a data-rich and thoroughly researched study that will be valuable for anyone interested in the history of public health in general, and its delivery in modern China in particular." J. W. Dauben, CUNY Herbert H. Lehman College, Choice September 2014 “Saving Lives in Wartime China presents an impressive amount of research based on a vast number of primary sources from archives in and outside China. It’s an invaluable contribution to a small body of literature on medical science and modernity which focus the often overlooked republican era.” Hongling Liang, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, International Political Anthropology Vol. 6 (2013) No. 2, 141-144 "[This book] provides by far the richest empirical evidence on “saving lives in wartime China” and the most persuasive arguments to date about why this mattered not just epidemiologically and demographically but also ethically. Historians of public health in East Asia, global public health, and public health policy as well as researchers and teachers of twentieth century Chinese history will appreciate both the forceful arguments and the historical specifics synthesized in Watt’s magnum opus." Marta E. Hanson, John Hopkins University, The China Journal No. 77, 150-152Table of ContentsIntroduction: Saving Lives in the Context of Disease, Poverty and War 1. Epidemics, Wars and Public Healthcare Advocacy in Nationalist China 2. Advances and Setbacks in Nationalist China's Public Health 3. Red Army Health Services in Jiangxi and on the Long March, 1927-1936 4. Japanese Invasion, Army Medicine, and the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps, 1937-1942 5. How Rigidity, Disease and Hunger Undermined the Best Efforts of Nationalist China’s Military Medical Reformers 6. Public Health Work amid the Turmoil of War, 1938-49 7. Yan’an’s Health Services under Mao Zedong’s Leadership, 1937-1945 8. Saving Lives in Wartime China: Why It Mattered

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Book SynopsisIn the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems. Epidemic diseases killed tens of millions, drought, flood and famine killed many more, and unhygienic birthing led to serious maternal and child mortality. The Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, and the nationwide War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945), imposed a further tide of misery. Troubled by this extensive trauma, a small number of healthcare reformers were able to save tens of thousands of lives, promote hygiene and sanitation, and begin to bring battlefield casualties, communicable diseases, and maternal child mortality under control. This study shows how biomedical physicians and public health practitioners were major contributors to the rise of modern China.Trade Review"John Watt, an accomplished historian of China and former medical foundation executive shows how medical and public health practitioners saved lives and created a public health system during the turbulent decades from 1930-1945." Ezra Vogel, Emeritus Professor, Harvard University "John Watt offers readers a wide-ranging and intimate view of health care in 20th-century wartime China. [...] Scholars interested in public health and 20th-century Chinese history will find this book invaluable." Tina Phillips Johnson, Assistant Professor of History and Director of Chinese Studies at St. Vincent College, The China Quarterly, 218, June 2014, pp. 582-583. "Capturing the drama – people, disease, poverty and Japanese war – of two crucial decades of health and social transformation in China, Watt’s history covers a major lacunae in understanding China past and future." Lincoln Chen, President of the China Medical Board "John Watt has lived close to the rich social and medical history of twentieth century China. His book details wartime crises from 1928 to 1945, showing how the developing sciences of biomedicine and public health mitigated chaos and death and began rural China’s transformation into the modern world." Richard N. Pierson, Jr., M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University, and Chair of the Board, ABMAC Foundation "[John Watt's] book certainly deserves Ezra Vogel's praise as the work of an accomplished historian of China and even more that of Lincoln Chen for 'capturing the drama' of the transformation of health care in China...[Watt] also gives us a new perspective on the genius of Mao who overcame the superstitions of peasants who earlier fled medical aid by making them see 'the white-coated warriors' as saviors of the revolution, and saviors of their sons and daughters unlike the Nationalists who simply felt they could conscript more bodies[...]I hope Saving Lives in Wartime China receives the wide notice it deserves." Gerald Grant, Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education (retired), Syracuse University "This very informative book includes dozens of photographs, maps, tables, and graphs, making this a data-rich and thoroughly researched study that will be valuable for anyone interested in the history of public health in general, and its delivery in modern China in particular." J. W. Dauben, CUNY Herbert H. Lehman College, Choice September 2014 “Saving Lives in Wartime China presents an impressive amount of research based on a vast number of primary sources from archives in and outside China. It’s an invaluable contribution to a small body of literature on medical science and modernity which focus the often overlooked republican era.” Hongling Liang, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, International Political Anthropology Vol. 6 (2013) No. 2, 141-144Table of ContentsIntroduction: Saving Lives in the Context of Disease, Poverty and War 1. Epidemics, Wars and Public Healthcare Advocacy in Nationalist China 2. Advances and Setbacks in Nationalist China's Public Health 3. Red Army Health Services in Jiangxi and on the Long March, 1927-1936 4. Japanese Invasion, Army Medicine, and the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps, 1937-1942 5. How Rigidity, Disease and Hunger Undermined the Best Efforts of Nationalist China’s Military Medical Reformers 6. Public Health Work amid the Turmoil of War, 1938-49 7. Yan’an’s Health Services under Mao Zedong’s Leadership, 1937-1945 8. Saving Lives in Wartime China: Why It Mattered

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an insight into research conducted by participants attending The Patient: Examining Realities: 5th Global Conference, held in Oxford, England, 14-16 September, 2016. These attendees and subsequent volume contributors include medical professionals and healthcare providers employed by reputable academic institutions, and who take a both scientific and practical interest in the healthcare industry and its practices. The book also includes discourses by academics with a more theoretical interest in health and the complex doctor-patient relationship. Research presented herein is both steeped in cultural traditions and reflective of new trends in certain countries across the globe. Theories, practices and trends highlighted in the book are ultimately universal in that they concern all of us on a global level.

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